The sky is full of helicopters but unfortunately there are too few suitable places for them to land. Hospital building programmes, uncertainty within the NHS about the long term use of hospitals and a lack of cash has resulted in delay and deferral and a serious shortage of helipads. Only a small number of hospitals have helipads and a number of these require updating as facilities on the ground now seriously lag behind helicopter numbers.
Air ambulances are by far the most effective way of transporting critically injured or ill patients to the hospital most suited to their needs. The HELP Appeal has received enthusiastic support from the public towards but one thing remains unchanged and that is County Air Ambulance Trust does not receive any help at all from the government or lottery funding.
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The brand new helipad at Oswestry Orthopaedic Hospital
This Unity Lottery is promoted by the County Air Ambulance Trust
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