London’s Air Ambulance service is known worldwide for its prompt services and relief work. It is also called as the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS). There is widespread notion about the service that it is called out in key trauma cases. The service comes very handy where only a few seconds can make the difference and can also cause havoc to the life. When there is no gap between life and death, Londoners feel the need for its air ambulance service in a great way. There is a glorious history behind the formation of the London air ambulance. It is reported that a detail from the Royal College of Surgeons in 1988 saw the formation of it.

The same report revealed that too many victims of trauma were on their last legs and sacrificing their lives without getting the proper care. Lives were running out of steam even before the arrival of the first aids.  As a result, the Helicopter Emergency Medical Services was set up which worked as a registered charity. Immediately after the formation, it started to do its business and began flying from the rooftop of the Royal London hospital. It set up its feet in the business in 1990 and by the end of 2005; it had ended up covering around 17,000 successful missions.  HEMS is controlled by the London Ambulance Service and comprise more or less the same area of coverage and cover the area inside the M25 London motorway.

The average troop is of two pilots comprising Captain and Co-pilot along with a doctor and a paramedic. On some other instances, the team will be attended by another doctor or paramedic undergoing training. If any one is new to the London, then even such person will not make a mistake in recognizing the HEMS helicopter. They are bright red all over the places and the medical crew put on bright orange flight suits. On the other side, the pilots wear red flight suits, and there is very low possibility that you are going to make any mistake in recognizing them. Also you are not likely to slip-up them for any  thing  else. There are some specifications with the London Air Ambulance as HEMS flies simply to main trauma incidents anywhere inside the M25 limit from the helipad on the roof of the Royal London Hospital. There are classifications as well for major trauma incidents and they are categorized as grave road traffic accidents, motor vehicle as well as pedestrian accidents, falls from above two storeys, stabbings, shootings  and stern burns and industrial injuries. At the moment, London air ambulance is about to launch a 24-hour tune-up that will save hundreds of lives a year. London city is now having a common site as the bright red helicopter has turned out to be a well-known sight in the capital. It swoops to take care of fatalities in some of the most built-up places in the city.