Mission Review

Scotland's Charity Air Ambulance operates two helicopter air ambulances - Helimed 76 based in Perth and Helimed 79 based in Aberdeen. Tasked through Scotland's 999 emergency response network, here are just some of the call outs we've responded to recently.

SCAA was diverted to a medical emergency near Fraserburgh while returning from Kirkwall recently. Our crew was quickly on scene and worked with Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues before the patient was taken to hospital.

A medical emergency at a doctors’ surgery in Kinloch Rannoch saw SCAA land in the adjacent field and airlift a patient quickly and comfortably to Dundee’s Ninewells Hospital for advanced care - a flight of only 20 minutes.

SCAA ensured a patient requiring an urgent transfer from Campbeltown to specialist hospital care in Glasgow was airlifted swiftly and comfortably - a flight of around half an hour compared to the equivalent journey by road of around two and a half hours.

SCAA was quickly on scene with an advanced clinical team when a paraglider crashed into a hillside near Tomatin recently. SCAA managed to land close to the scene and emergency services colleagues helped stretcher the injured man to our helicopter across the steep, rough, heather-clad hillside. The patient was then airlifted, suffering leg injuries, to the Major Trauma Centre in Aberdeen.

SCAA joined HM Coastguard and Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues to rescue a walker injured in a fall on a coastal path on a remote headland north of Ullapool recently. Our helicopter landed nearby and everyone helped carry the patient, suffering lower leg injuries, across challenging terrain to the aircraft. The injured man was then flown to hospital care at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness in less than half an hour.

Three separate road traffic collisions recently dominated a day’s workload for SCAA’s Aberdeen-based Helimed 79 crew. Our helicopter air ambulance quickly flew a specialist doctor-led team to accidents at Fordoun, Oldmeldrum and Huntly - effectively bringing the accident and emergency department to the roadside. Our crew worked alongside colleagues from the Scottish Ambulance Service, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland at the scenes before casualties were taken to hospital.

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