Thames Valley Air Ambulance

Thames Valley Air Ambulance
Established2011
Legal statusRegistered charity
HeadquartersStokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England
Region served
Royal patron
Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh[1]
Revenue£12.2 million[2] (2024)
Staff128[2] (2024)
Volunteers103[2] (2024)
Websitewww.tvairambulance.org.uk Edit this at Wikidata

The Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA), previously the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance, is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter-based air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East England region.

Operations

The charity's helicopter, which is night-capable, is a Eurocopter EC135[3] operating between 7 am and 2 am.[3][4] It is based at RAF Benson – roughly halfway between Oxford and Reading – with two pilots and a medical team. It also operates five emergency response vehicles (ERV), which, like the helicopter, carries a doctor and paramedic.[3]

In the year ending March 2024, TVAA's income was £12.2 million, against expenditure of £12.2M, of which £7.9M was spent on operating the charitable emergency service.[2] In 2019, TVAA responded to 2,670 incidents.[5]

G-HBOB, the previous helicopter used by the charity

Media

In 2018, the charity appeared on Channel 4's TV programme Emergency Helicopter Medics, which follows the crews responding and treating emergency patients.[6] Other air ambulances that featured in the show include Great North Air Ambulance and East Anglian Air Ambulance.

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Countess of Wessex becomes Royal Patron of Thames Valley Air Ambulance". The Royal Family. 18 January 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Charity Overview: Thames Valley Air Ambulance". Charity Commission for England and Wales. Retrieved 2 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b c "Our Vehicles". Thames Valley Air Ambulance. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  4. ^ "TVAA starts night flying". Thames Valley Air Ambulance. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  5. ^ "About Us". Thames Valley Air Ambulance. Retrieved 6 May 2020.
  6. ^ "Emergency Helicopter Medics". Thames Valley Air Ambulance. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
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