The Children's Air Ambulance is a children's charity which will provide an air ambulance dedicated to providing flights for the sick children and babies that need urgent treatment at specialist paediatric intensive care units.
Currently air ambulances fly patients from an accident scene to a hospital - this will be the first air ambulance devoted solely to the transfer of children rather than operating a Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS).
The Charity will fly sick children from local hospitals in England and Wales to children's hospitals.
The need
If your child fell seriously ill you'd want them to get the very best treatment they could as soon as possible. But what if that treatment was only available in London - some two hundred miles from where you live?
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Such transfers are currently done by land ambulance, journeys that can take many hours - and when your child is critically ill, every moment counts. In rare cases transfers might be done by military helicopters at a huge cost, or a local Air Ambulance - but what if the local Air Ambulance is out saving a life at the scene of a road accident, as they do countless times a day?
The solution
The only option previously would have been a long, uncomfortable and arduous journey by land ambulance.
Now, there is The Children's Air Ambulance (TCAA). In early 2013, TCAA will begin it's transfer of children, flying to and from specialist children's hospitals, and it can't come too soon.
A real story
One person who knows just how important and vital this service is, is Zoe Kirkman. Watch her video below, visit our website to read her story, then please if you can, make a donation to help get this lifesaving service off the ground.
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