FACTS AND FIGURES


Mission data: 2016 in numbers In 2016 we


attended a total of 1,735 missions


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Two thirds using a critical care car…


and one third using a helicopter


The total revenue needed to stay operational is £2.6 million a year


Hospital transfer (0.3%)


Sports (2.1%)


Medical (19.4%)


Type of job


RTC (19.8%)


Trauma (25.9%)


Gloucestershire (19.1%)


Cardiac arrest (30.7%)


Other 1.8%


Out of area (5.9%)


Wiltshire (7.9%)


South


Gloucestershire (11.5%)


North Somerset (10.2%)


Region


Bristol (39.7%)


Bath and North East Somerset (5.7%)


For every minute the rotor blades turn it costs £15 It costs £50 to lift the


Each lifesaving mission costs on average £2,000


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