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The Emergency Aeromedical Service (EAS) is a helicopter-based medical evacuation and air ambulance service based in Athlone, Ireland. [1] Operated since 2012 by the Air Corps and National Ambulance Service under the call sign MEDEVAC 112, [ 2 ] the service was redesignated AIR CORPS 112 in 2016.
Historically, Northern Ireland has been the only part of the United Kingdom and Ireland, without air ambulance provision and several previous attempts to introduce a HEMS failed. A comprehensive report published in February 2004 argued against the provision of an air ambulance service from Scotland in favour of either a separate Northern ...
Bishopstown News [14] – Free monthly newspaper for the Western Suburbs (mainly Bishopstown and Wilton) of Cork City; The Carrigdhoun – Carrigaline and south-east Cork [15] Cork Independent – free Cork city- and county-based weekly newspaper; The Cork News – free Cork city based weekly newspaper, launched 18 September 2009 [16]
Allan Watkiss - BBC News January 17, 2025 at 3:02 AM Yorkshire Air Ambulance has three helicopters which can carry patients at up to 160mph (260km/h) [Yorkshire Air Ambulance]
The National Ambulance Service College (NASC) (Irish: Coláiste Náisiúnta an tSeirbhís Otharchairr) was first established in 1986 as the National Ambulance Training School and is based at the organisation's new HQ named the Rivers Building in Tallaght, which also houses the National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC). 999/112 emergency calls are processed here also, as well as a second base ...
Emergency air ambulances are generally helicopter based, and used to respond to medical emergencies in support of local ambulance services. In England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, all of these services are charitably funded, and either directly owned by the charity, or operated under contract with a private provider. [3]
An air ambulance is a specially outfitted helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft that transports injured or sick people in a medical emergency or over distances or terrain impractical for a conventional ground ambulance. Fixed-wing aircraft are also more often used to move patients over long distances and for repatriation from foreign countries.
The charity runs three services, two are emergency helicopters covering Warwickshire & Northamptonshire and Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland, and the third is the Children's Air Ambulance that covers Great Britain and provides an emergency transfer service for seriously ill babies and children.