Thames Valley Air Ambulance
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| Established | 2011 |
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| Legal status | Registered charity |
| Headquarters | Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England |
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Royal patron | Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh[2] |
| Revenue | £12.2 million[1] (2024) |
| Staff | 128[1] (2024) |
| Volunteers | 103[1] (2024) |
The Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA), previously the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance, is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter-based air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East England region.
Operations
[edit | edit source]The charity's helicopter, which is night-capable, is a Eurocopter EC135,[3] registered G-TVLY, operating between 7 am and 2 am.[3][4] It is based at RAF Benson – roughly halfway between Oxford and Reading – with two pilots and a medical team. It also operates five emergency response vehicles (ERV), which, like the helicopter, carries a doctor and paramedic.[3]
In the year ending March 2024, TVAA's income was £12.2 million, against expenditure of £12.2M, of which £7.9M was spent on operating the charitable emergency service.[1] In 2019, TVAA responded to 2,670 incidents.[5]
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Media
[edit | edit source]In 2018, the charity appeared on Channel 4's TV programme Emergency Helicopter Medics, which follows the crews responding and treating emergency patients.[6] Other air ambulances that featured in the show include Great North Air Ambulance and East Anglian Air Ambulance.
See also
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External links
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