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, we often work with other first responder organisations to get people the help they need as quickly as possible.

SCAA's Helimed 79 air ambulance was quickly on scene when a woman was injured in a one vehicle accident near Kirriemuir recently. Our crew worked alongside colleagues from the Scottish Ambulance Service, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service and Police Scotland before the patient was taken to hospital by road, freeing up our air ambulance and crew for its next emergency mission.

Our paramedics recently worked with Scottish Ambulance Service land crew colleagues at the scene of a motocross accident near North Berwick, before airlifting an injured teenager to the Royal Infirmary Edinburgh for advanced treatment.

A New Year's Day emergency saw SCAA's Helimed 79 crew airlift with a specialist team to help a dog walker injured in a fall near Laurencekirk. The injured woman, who had fallen into a small gully, was treated at the scene and then taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary.

SCAA's Helimed 76 helicopter was recently able to land near a woman injured in a fall on the Fife Coastal Path near St Monans. Our air ambulance crew then worked with Scottish Ambulance Service colleagues at the difficult-to-access location before airlifting the patient to the Major Trauma Centre in Dundee.

SCAA recently landed at a house on the Moray coast near Banff to attend a woman suffering a stroke. Our aircraft took just 15 minutes to transfer the patient to advanced specialist care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - a journey that would have taken over an hour by road.

A man who recently fell from a ladder after suffering cardiac complications at his home in the Peterhead area was quickly and comfortably airlifted by SCAA to specialist care at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary. Our helicopter air ambulance made the journey to hospital in just 12 minutes, saving over half an hour on the equivalent journey by road.

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