Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Health & Communities Committee Presentation by Ian Crowe, Trustee Michelle McDaid, Area Fundraising Manager

Your Giving Keeps Others Like LIVING!

Air Ambulance HEMS service • Partnership with Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and Air Ambulance Northern Ireland to delivery the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) • Trauma Service Provision provided 365 days of the year, 7 days a week, 12 hours per day • 1-2 taskings per day • EC135 Helicopter can travel anywhere in Northern Ireland in circa 25 minutes • This service brings the hospital to the patient • Already being tasked daily, on average with over 1200 taskings

15 Doctors, 8 Paramedics, 2 Pilots, 1 Engineer

HEMS AND OPERATIONS 50 1200 449 Patient visits flying hours taskings to base Availability September‘19 25 min rate of helicopter busiest month 99% average 51 flight time To Derry/Strabane

Types of Incident • RTC – 50% • Agriculture / farming – 10% • Industrial & Workplace – 7% • Other – for example falls, sporting injuries, incidents at home

How and When HEMS dispatched ? Air Ambulance Paramedic is at NIAS Control Centre 999 1. Immediate dispatch 2. Interrogation 3. Crew Request

Once tasked HEMS can deliver * Consultant based advice * Advanced analgesia * Pre-hospital surgery * Pre-hospital anaesthetic * Critical care intervention Bringing the hospital ED to the patient

Why We need your support – Sustainability of • £2million each Year to run the Service = £5,500 per day AANI • Honeymoon period? • Next 3 years Critical – Development of AANI • New Base? • Introduction of new & improved Medical Interventions • Plea to Local Councils – 3 Year Funding Partnership

Derry City & Strabane District Council • Approx.1 person transported to hospital every 2 weeks Tasked to: Newbuildings, Drumahoe, Foreglen, Campsie, Maydown, Castlederg, Clady, Strabane, Derry City-Buncrana Road, Sion Mills, Bready, Claudy, Magheramason – Each patient’s family & Community have engaged in Fundraising activities. • Local Trauma Centre 2 helipads – Altnagelvin Area Hospital • Regular Refuelling at CODA

• Impact of your support: • Potentially Saving 30 lives in our Council area every year • Impact of Funding – Can we afford £1,000 per Life? • Sustaining The Service • Can you be the first Council in NI to Support?

Any Questions?