Annual Review April 2018/March 2019
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In partnership with EMRTS Cymru Annual Review April 2018/March 2019 Serving Wales. Saving Lives. Contents Introduction Foreword 3 Our Service - Fast Facts 4 Foreword Foreword In 2019, the Wales Air Charity and NHS Wales. The This service thrives thanks to The Charity Operation Ambulance Charity came medical part of the operation is the support of our trustees, About Wales Air Ambulance 6 of age, marking its 18th known within NHS Wales as the employees, volunteers, medics, anniversary on 1 March. In that Emergency Medical Retrieval and pilots (past and present) Public and Corporate Support 7 time, we have grown from a and Transfer Service (EMRTS and their dedication to our Charity Income and Expenditure 8 one helicopter service into the Cymru), or the ‘Welsh Flying cause of serving Wales and largest air ambulance operation Medics’. EMRTS Cymru focuses saving lives. 2018/19Annual Review // Legacy Tributes 9 in the UK. on the medical workforce and medical governance of the Our incredible success has The Medical Operation With the introduction of service. been made possible thanks About the Medical Operation 10 consultants and critical care to you, the people of Wales. practitioners to the service in NHS Wales, through EMRTS Over the past eighteen years, Medical Governance 12 2015, along with pioneering Cymru, supplies the medics you have helped us raise over Medical Financial Statement ED-standard equipment, we while the Charity works £100 million and save countless (EMRTS) 14 have also become one of the tirelessly to raise the £6.5 million lives. Thank you for your most medically advanced required every year to keep the overwhelming and ongoing air ambulance operations in helicopters flying. support. Additional Information Europe. April 2018 - March 2019 For the first time since the Wales Air Ambulance was Mission Data 16 This medical enhancement partnership began, we have created by the people of Wales, Success Stories 18 has been possible thanks to a brought together our end- for the people of Wales. Our unique Third Sector and Public of-year summaries into one success is your success and the Patient Case Studies 20 Sector partnership between document – this Annual Review. information in this review is a The Future 22 the Wales Air Ambulance testament to that. Trustees D. Gilbert OBE (Chair) K. Jacques (Vice Chair) M. James D. Kitto D. Jones-Morris Registered in England and Wales J. Wagstaffe Company number: 4036600 S. Curtis Charity number: 1083645 O. Davies Dave Gilbert OBE Professor David Lockey B. Kirsop Patron: Sir Bryn Terfel. Chair of Trustees, Wales Air National Director, EMRTS R. Locke Company Secretary: J. Stephens. Ambulance Charity Cymru L. Dafydd Chief Executive: A. Hughes. 2 April 2018 - March 2019 // Annual Review April 2018 - March 2019 // Annual Review 3 Our Service - Fast Facts Medical Helicopter • Superior oxygen capacity. Crews can carry 600 litres of Capability Capability oxygen on a flight. Our Service - Fast Facts Our Service - Fast • Consultants and critical care • Two powerful turboshaft • Customised stretcher practitioners on scene to engines and large fuel tanks. system. The stretcher can be make advanced assessments Enables crews to fly long wheeled out of the aircraft and critical management distances without the need and directly into the hospital, decisions. to refuel. and has brackets around the • The ability to undertake • The helicopter can fly at 130 stretcher to fix the crews’ blood transfusions. We knots (around 150mph). specialist equipment to it Annual Review 2018/19Annual Review // carry four types of blood • It has five seats. Allows when moving patients. products supplied through a for additional passengers, • Pioneering bracket systems partnership with the Welsh such as specialist medical for medical equipment. Blood Service: red blood crew or a patient’s relative if Unique designs have been cells, freeze-dried plasma, appropriate. used to secure our advanced fibrinogen concentrate • A high-speed internet medical equipment into the and prothrombin complex connection. Crews can aircraft. Equipment can be concentrate. communicate vital charged in the helicopter, so • The ability to administer information to hospitals it is ready to go as soon as the anaesthesia and analgesia directly from medical crews get a 999 call – saving (pain relief). equipment en route. time and reaching patients • Point-of-care-testing • The latest weather radar even faster. devices: portable blood gas technology, and traffic and analysers and an ultrasound terrain avoidance systems. scanner. • Ergonomic storage. A • Advanced technology customised storage system (e.g. life support ventilators specifically for the medics, so suitable for all ages). they can access all their kit • An advanced flight precisely when they need to. incubator system. • Advanced lighting systems. • Automated chest Night-flight technology will compression devices to aid help us to extend our hours CPR. of flight. 4 April 2018 - March 2019 // Annual Review April 2018 - March 2019 // Annual Review 5 Public and Corporate/ The Charity Employee Corporate Support Support Operation We often receive support There are many ways in which the public and directly from businesses businesses support Wales Air Ambulance. and their employees. They About Wales Air Serving Wales, Every pound and every spare hour makes a vital do so in the following ways: Ambulance Saving Lives difference to what we do. Here are some examples Launched on St. David’s Day Wales Air Ambulance covers of how we are supported: • Donating before tax with 2001, Wales Air Ambulance is the the whole of Wales every single Payroll Giving. official air ambulance service for day, covering rural countryside, • Nominating us as Charity of Wales. We provide air cover to bustling towns and cities, along Monetary Shops and Café About Wales Air Ambulance About Wales The Charity has 17 shops located the Year. relieve illness and injury across the Welsh coastline and across Donations Support Public and Corporate • across Wales. We also have an Volunteering staff time or the country. vast mountain ranges. Our four Donations are made award-winning café based at work-place fundraising. airbase operations in Caernarfon, via postal mail, over the • Caernarfon Airport called Caffi Donating services or We are the only air ambulance Llanelli, Welshpool and Cardiff phone (0300 0152 999), HEMS (see page 19). supplies. charity based in, and dedicated are ready to save lives wherever through our website to, Wales and rely entirely on needed. (walesairambulance.com), donations to raise £6.5 million or via our Facebook page. Fundraising Cardiff Heliport The Charity Operation // Operation The Charity each year to keep our helicopters Flying ED Across Wales, people find their In August 2018, Wales Air The Charity Operation // // Operation The Charity flying. Legacies own personal, and often creative, Ambulance took over the (Emergency lease of Cardiff Heliport in a Gifts in Wills have become an ways of raising money for Wales Department) new venture which will help invaluable way to support the Air Ambulance. Our Mission Wales Air Ambulance can to generate funds for the Charity (see page 9). We are on standby every day be there for anyone in Wales Volunteering service (see page 18). to protect human life through within 20 minutes, taking the Volunteers are crucial for our Helicopter Emergency Medical emergency department (ED) Lifesaving mission of continuing to provide Services and air ambulance directly to the patient. Find Lottery an air ambulance service for the transfers across Wales. out more about our medical Our Lifesaving Lottery offers people of Wales. Our volunteers operation on page 10. £1,500 in cash prizes every are the lifeblood of the Charity Our Vision week. As of 31 March 2019, the and support us in our shops To provide a 24-hour operation lottery had 95,027 members. Children’s Wales and warehouses, as well as so we can help people both assisting our transport teams. day and night, and continually Air Ambulance Donations They also attend fundraising and strive for an outstanding air The Charity also runs the of Pre-loved community events, in addition ambulance service available to Children’s Wales Air Ambulance, to supporting administrative everyone in Wales (see page 22). a specialist division to provide Goods functions at our bases. expert care for some of Wales’ Pre-loved goods (furniture, youngest patients. Our crews clothes, DVDs, CDs, bric- airlift paediatric and neonatal a-brac, toys and more) are patients to and from specialist donated to us, either directly hospitals across the UK, as well to our shops or via our free as providing vital air cover on collection service. emergency missions. 6 7 Charity Income and Legacy Expenditure Tributes Total income 2016/17 £13,287,000 2017/18 Income by We dedicate this page to the For the financial year ending July 2018 people below, who have left the source Tributes Legacy greatest gift; a legacy that will 8 support those in need and save LIBOR lives. 15 • Allan John George Beaumont • Helen Vivian George • Morgan Davies Retail Trading • Ann Voisey • Irene Emma Hancock • Nance Keevil • Anne Elizabeth Murphy • Jane Malltwen Williams • Nesta Vaughan Brazell // Operation The Charity • Anne Nest Humphreys • Joan Ellen Susan Deneen • Olive Betty Goddard 18 • Anne Thomas • Joan Emma Mynott • Patricia Maura Hackett Donations / Other • Arthur Walford Griffiths • Joan Hooper • Patricia Sadie Harbridge £1m £1.084m £1.905m £1.995m £2.463m £2.404m £1.489m £3.274m £4.062m £4.530m • Barbara Muriel Dance • Joan Mary Merchant • Patricia Tonkins LIBOR Retail Donations/ Legacies Lifesaving • Bertie Humphrey Jones • Joyce Ceridwen Edwards • Robert Andrew Miggiano Trading Other Lottery 25 • Beryl Patricia Gwen Vaughan • June Hopkins • Ronald Hubert Noot Legacies • Catherine Kirkham • Jane Malltwen Williams • Sarah Ellen Pritchard Generating • Catherine Roberts • Joan Ellen Susan Deneen • Sheila Jean Badham funds • Charles Norman Steele • Joan Emma Mynott • Stan Clarke For every £1 we spend on fundraising, £1 £5 34 • Charles Perry • Joan Hooper • Stanley Reginald Salt we generate more than £5 in income.