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The East Anglian Air Ambulance (EAAA) is an air ambulance providing Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) across the English counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire. The appeal to fund the service was launched in the summer of 2000 by top jockey Frankie Dettori , who had been injured in a serious plane crash in June ...
Magpas Air Ambulance is a registered charity that operates a helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS) in the East of England. Founded in 1971, the charity operates a helicopter and three rapid response vehicles from its base in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. As of 2023, their staff consists of 80 employees and 70 volunteers.
EEAST has 90 stations [14] [15] spread across the six counties the trust covers. Each station can house a mixture of accident and emergency vehicles, RRVs and patient transport services vehicles. The station has facilities for staff to rest, prepare ambulances and restock consumable medical equipment.
Transport in East Anglia consists of an extensive road and rail network. Main A roads, such as the A12 and A47 link the area to the rest of the UK, and the A14 links the Midlands to the Port of Felixstowe. This is the busiest container port in the UK, dealing with over 40% of UK container traffic and is a major gateway port into the country. [24]
The first air ambulance services in the UK commenced in Scotland in November 1933, with a flight from Wideford Airport, Kirkwall, Orkney. The first night time ambulance flight was undertaken in February 1939, from Wideford to the island of Sanday, using car headlights to help take off and landing.
Transport in East Anglia consists of extensive road and rail networks as well as one of England's key regional airports and the country's busiest container port. Despite having very little motorway within their borders, the counties of Suffolk , Norfolk and Cambridgeshire have modern transport links with the rest of the country.
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance utilises two helicopters and four rapid response cars to transport their pre-hospital care teams. Both current helicopters entered service in August 2017. The helicopters have the ability to access remote parts of Essex and Hertfordshire quickly, unaffected by road traffic congestions.
Norwich Airport (IATA: NWI, ICAO: EGSH) is an international airport in Norfolk, England, 2.5 miles (4.0 kilometres) north of the city of Norwich. [3] In 2023, Norwich Airport was the 25th busiest airport in the UK and busiest in East Anglia.