Today is International Women’s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, as well as marking a call to action for accelerating gender parity. International Women’s Day has occurred for well over a century, with the first gathering in 1911 supported by over a million people. With 77% of Magpas Air Ambulance’s non-clinical workforce being female, it’s no surprise the local charity—which saves lives 24/7 in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and across the East of England—is joining in the celebrations once again. Female representation is noticeabl ..read more

Alice Lunn, from Godmanchester, is taking on the Cambridge Half Marathon for Magpas Air Ambulance this Sunday. Alongside her dad, the pair will run the gruelling 13.1 miles—all for the charity that saved Alice’s life four years ago. In 2019, aged just 18, everything changed for Alice when she suffered a respiratory arrest at home one night. Magpas Air Ambulance was called and performed procedures normally only available in a hospital A&E department to try to stabilise her condition, including making a small incision in the side of Alice’s chest. It was then, thanks to the team’s expert kn ..read more

On Friday, 10th February Magpas Air Ambulance staff, clinicians and former patients welcomed HRH The Princess Royal to the site of the charity’s new base, to unveil a cornerstone for the new building which is mid-way through construction. The event, sponsored by Leonardo and supported by Special Aviation Services, had been postponed from September due to the funeral of Her late Majesty The Queen. The new, purpose-built airbase and headquarters at Alconbury Weald—being delivered by Lindum Group—will boast a dedicated state-of-the-art training centre to train the next generation of pre-hospital ..read more

Magpas Air Ambulance experienced its busiest year in four years as the charity responded to 1,335 emergencies, across 11 counties in and around the East of England, in 2022. Following the same patterns as recent years, life-threatening medical emergencies such as cardiac arrests remained the number one reason for activation, followed by patients injured in road traffic collisions—accounting for 65% of the service’s emergency call outs combined. Magpas Air Ambulance also continued to see more men than women, with 73% of patients treated being male, and 10% of patients were children. As every o ..read more

Peterborough’s local air ambulance charity, Magpas Air Ambulance, has served the area for many years. The charity’s team of doctors and critical care paramedics are most frequently called to patients in life-threatening emergencies in Cambridgeshire—and they have responded to over 190 emergencies in Peterborough and surrounding villages this year so far. Magpas Air Ambulance is fortunate to have some extremely experienced critical care paramedics in its cohort, who have served the charity for over a decade and have extensive experience in emergency care. Now, four of t ..read more

Magpas Air Ambulance saves lives 24/7 in Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and across the East of England. The charity’s doctors and critical care paramedics are specially trained in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM), which allows them to perform procedures and provide treatments that are usually only available in a hospital A&E department, right at the scene of a patient’s medical emergency. This saves vital time when every second counts and can make a lifesaving difference to the people they treat. As well as operating a helicopter and rapid response vehicles out of its base in Huntingd ..read more

Lifesaving charity Magpas Air Ambulance operates an air ambulance and three rapid response vehicles to save lives 24/7 in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and beyond—and the provision of advanced medical care doesn’t stop at Christmas. Magpas Air Ambulance will continue to respond to medical emergencies every day over the Christmas period, and one of the charity’s newest recruits—Dr Chris Hook, who started working with the charity in the summer this year—is on shift this Christmas Day. Chris’ journey into pre-hospital medicine is little different than most; having previously worked in war zones an ..read more

The Magpas Air Ambulance team intubating a patient An advanced piece of equipment predominantly only used in hospitals has been adopted by lifesaving charity Magpas Air Ambulance, in a bid to prevent infection and save lives across the region. Cambridgeshire-based Magpas Air Ambulance has been pioneering advances in emergency medicine for 50 years and recently worked with the Trauma Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at Addenbrooke’s Hospital to improve survival and recovery times of intubated patients across the East of England. Magpas Air Ambulance clinicians are trained in Pre-Hospital Emergency Med ..read more

Crew members from Cambridgeshire-based charity, Magpas Air Ambulance, and the East of England Ambulance Service (EEAST) won the 999 Hero category in The Sun’s Who Cares Wins awards, which was aired on Channel 4 on Sunday. The nomination came after they brought 13-year-old Daisy Webb back to life after she suffered a cardiac arrest whilst walking to school in Huntingdon earlier this year. Witnesses saw Daisy fall to her knees and stop breathing and immediately called 999. Fortunately for Daisy, EEAST crew members Grace Lemin, Harrison Galgut and Charlie Harris arrived within minutes to discove ..read more

When lifesaving charity Magpas Air Ambulance decided to bring a higher level of emergency care to Bedfordshire by basing a rapid response emergency medical team in Luton, the charity also wanted to identify further opportunities to support the local community. So Magpas Air Ambulance teamed up with the Bedfordshire Football Association to teach the charity’s Community CPR course to football teams across central Bedfordshire and Bedfordshire Borough. Over the past four months, Nicola Cooper, Magpas Air Ambulance’s Training and Engagement Officer, has run two Community CPR sessions a week on ave ..read more