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HampshireHeli and Isle of Wight Airmed Ambulance Magazine 56SPRING 2017 110 years of Extraordinary Service We unveil our new brand identity page: 14 Gold Standard Pre-hospital Care Read all about HIOWAA’s Immersive Simulation Suite page: 18/19 A Second Chance to Live Read Paul Blackburn’s life-changing story page: 7 A Day in the Life of Pilot Marcus Doyle page: 10/11 a /WELCOME Contents Welcome from Alex Lochrane 1 Welcome News 2 to the Spring edition of Helimed 56 Community & Corporate 3 Just 10 years ago Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air The patients who we feature in this issue of Helimed 56 both Uplifting Stories 4/5 Ambulance began saving lives in our community. When we use the phrase ‘second chance to live’ when they describe the Geraldine and Norman Hibberd first launched our Helicopter Emergency Medical Service opportunity that the quick intervention of our critical care (HEMS) we operated a Bolkow 105 aircraft, flying for eight team has given them. Back in November last year we were Events 6 hours a day, five days a week, from our airbase in Thruxton. able to reunite Gerry Hibberd with Doctor David Sutton, who Our Air Ambulance team was made up of a pilot and two was on duty on the day that Gerry suffered heart failure whilst Uplifting Stories 7 paramedics, some of whom still fly with us today. on a short local shopping trip. We seldom get the opportunity Paul Blackburn This year we celebrate our 10th anniversary year and to reunite patients and the HEMS teams who cared for them, today, thanks to your support, we are one of the leading so it is always a very special moment to learn directly from A day in the life of 10/11 Air Ambulance charities in the UK. We now fly both day and them of the impact that our Critical Care teams have had upon Pilot Marcus Doyle night, 365 days a year, bringing our advanced Critical Care their lives. Team of paramedics and doctors to the scene of an incident Our service is all about people and our new charity strap 10 years of HIOWAA in pictures 12/13 within minutes, ready to deliver the same level of care, and line sums this up perfectly: using equipment similar to that which you would expect Ordinary people . Extraordinary care . Supported by You Our Visual Evolution 14 from a hospital emergency department. This just could not be achieved without the support of the many organisations As Her Majesty the Queen said in her Christmas message: Uplifting Stories 15 who work quietly in the background. I want to take this charities today are characterised by ordinary people doing Robert Mullen opportunity to say thank you to the teams of volunteer blood extraordinary things. Our Critical Care teams are made up of bikers who, on behalf of local charity SERV Wessex, deliver ordinary people who bring exceptional pre-hospital care to Meet the Crew 17 life-saving blood and plasma to our airbase every 48 hours. those who need the highest level of urgent medical treatment, Critical Care Team Paramedic Oliver Saddler In addition, my sincere thanks to the staff in UHS path lab whenever, and wherever they are. We can only deliver this who prepare and package that blood for us, and also to the service thanks to the outstanding support that we receive Immersive Simulation Suite 18/19 SCAS staff who deliver equipment and stores to the hangar every day from the communities that we serve. Without your regularly, in order that the aircraft is fully equipped and support, we simply could not continue to save lives. Flight For Life Lottery 20 ready to go. I hope that you’ll agree with me that our service Thank you. has come a very long way in the past ten years. Children’s Page 21 Our 10th Anniversary is also the right time to update our branding to help highlight the enormous advances which have taken place within our service and how it is delivered. After extensive public and internal research, we have Alex Lochrane developed branding which truly reflects what we do and how Chief Executive we do it, and you can see this in an infographic on page 14. Another vitally important factor in delivering our truly gold standard of pre-hospital care is education and training, and both play a very important part in the day to day lives of our critical care team. The immersive simulation suite that Consultant Paramedic Els Freshwater describes on page 18-19 is used on a daily basis between missions and Please do take a few minutes to read this important letter. allows teams to fine tune their skills and procedures and As you may be aware, new data protection regulations coming into discuss ways to improve and learn together in an open and force very soon will mean that, in common with all other charities in professional atmosphere. Skip to our news section on England, the way that we are allowed to communicate with you will Hampshire and Isle of Wight change during the course of the year, depending on what you consent Air Ambulance page 2 and you’ll see a photograph of our newly launched to receive. I hope you will not mind, but I will need to contact you 22 Oriana Way, Nursling Critical Care Team Vehicle (CCTV) which also plays an during 2017 at various points to ask if you would like to continue Southampton SO16 0YU important part in our education and training programme. hearing from us, as well as to ask you specifically how you would like t: 023 8033 3377 Bringing a parallel capability to your Air Ambulance, the us to keep in touch with you. e: [email protected] CCTV not only allows us to reach the more difficult urban Without your permission to contact you via email, letter, text, www.hiowaa.org areas in our region, but it has more space to allow trainee telephone or direct mailing about charity campaigns, promotions Registered Charity Number: 1106234 Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Doctors and Paramedics or general information, we will not be allowed to get in touch with Company Number: 5244460 to tackle real emergencies under the careful supervision of you to update you on your Air Ambulance. So do please look out for more experienced colleagues. Often, however, our teams my first request for your permission to contact you, which will be in Editor: Caroline Tyree the Autumn edition of Helimed 56, and do please use the freepost have little time to train between missions, and Pilot Marcus envelopes we will provide to ‘opt in’ to receiving our news. Thank you. Design, Photography, Production Doyle’s account of the day in the life of an Air Ambulance www.3men2.co.uk pilot on page 10-11 is a very good example of this. Photo: Simon Heron – 3Men2 b 1 /NEWS /COMMUNITY & CORPORATE Our Critical HIOWAA’s Care Team Corporate Partner: Vehicle Knight Frank Leading global estate agent Knight Frank became a HIOWAA Corporate Partner in 2014. They have provided us with the support that we needed to launch our award 2 winning ‘Be a 999 Hero’ Schools and Youth Programme and helped In February we launched our brand new to spread awareness for HIOWAA An extension of our current Mark Potter and Andrew Rome from Knight Frank Critical Care Team Vehicle. A specially throughout our region. service, our Critical Care Team converted Volvo XC90, it will initially Vehicle is crewed by a team of operate seven days a week, during the day. Because the vehicle is able to respond a HIOWAA doctor and specialist quickly to emergency situations in areas Photos: Simon Heron – 3Men paramedic and provides the same less accessible by the helicopter, it allows Vehicle acts as a vital training platform enhanced care as that delivered the helicopter to respond to more distant for our highly skilled medical teams who emergencies, including those on the Isle of undergo a great deal of training to achieve by the helicopter. Wight. In addition, the Critical Care Team and maintain their skill sets. HIOWAA Grant Fund Dedicated Blood Bike ‘Our volunteer riders are proud to Stamp Appeal be associated with HIOWAA and to be In an age where technology Be a 999 Hero seems to be taking over and able to play their part in helping to The programme has been a resounding ‘snail mail’ is becoming a success and over 29,000 children from bring the hospital to the patient’. thing of the past, did you know schools, youth groups and nurseries across - Tim Bennett, SERV Wessex that the old-fashioned stamp Hampshire and the Isle of Wight have now appeal is still going strong and benefited from a 30 minute interactive HIOWAA has donated a dedicated blood bike is helping HIOWAA raise the presentation designed to equip them with to SERV Wessex, whose volunteer blood bikers vital funds it needs to keep the the vital skills that could one day save a life. operate a regular transportation service from Air Ambulance flying? At the forefront of the campaign are Winning the Campaign of the Year Award for our ‘Be a 999 Hero’ programme University Hospital Southampton to the HIOWAA Since 2013, the selling Ideally, stamps should six super hero characters, inspired by the airbase in Thruxton, changing the blood carried of used postage stamps be sorted into foreign and charity’s team of paramedics, doctors and by the Air Ambulance every 48 hours. The has raised just over £10,000.