London’s Air Ambulance is a registered charity which runs London’s only helicopter emergency medical service, providing life saving care to victims of serious injury throughout London - serving the 10 million people who live, work and commute within the M25.
Based at the Royal London Hospital and founded in 1989, the service is unique in that it operates 24/7, with the helicopter running in daylight hours and rapid response cars taking over at night. The Team, which at all times includes a senior trauma doctor and a specially trained paramedic, attends an average of seven missions every 24 hours.
London’s Air Ambulance has an international reputation for clinical excellence and delivers pioneering procedures which have been adopted across the world.
London’s Air Ambulance was the first air ambulance service in the UK:
with a doctor and paramedic team;
to deliver high standard pre-hospital anaesthesia;
to have a clinical governance programme;
to perform a thoracotomy (open heart surgery) at the roadside;
to perform thoracostomy (to drain collapsed lungs);
to use check lists to improve patient safety;
with air & land based response; and to provide 24 hour cover.

London's Air Ambulance
The Helipad
Royal London Hospital
Whitechapel
London
E1 1BB

Telephone: +44(0) 207 943 1302
Fax: +44(0) 207 247 6764