Posts by Lydia Crump

Simon Dodd, who lives in Norfolk, has been working with Cambridgeshire-based charity Magpas Air Ambulance for the past seven months, saving lives across Cambridgeshire and the East of England 24/7. After he went travelling, spending time in South America and doing a ski season in the French Alps, Simon wanted to find a job that…

As a pioneering medical charity, Magpas Air Ambulance is always striving to provide our clinicians with the best possible training in order to provide patients across the East of England and beyond with lifesaving medical care 24/7. Understandably, state-of-the-art training mannequins and materials do not come cheap, so our training leads and consultants are regularly…

As a new series of SAS: Who Dares Wins comes to an end, Magpas Air Ambulance Doctor Charlotte Haldane—who has worked on several of the series, as well as on other high-profile TV shows and documentaries—talks about what it’s like to provide medical and safety support in some of the world’s most extreme environments. Not…

In addition to working with Magpas Air Ambulance and treating patients at the scene of their incidents, many of our doctors also have roles within hospitals too. Dr Rishi Rallan has been a doctor with the charity for over four years, but also works as a consultant in emergency medicine at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge.  …

Critical Care Paramedic Thomas began working with Magpas Air Ambulance in February. Just six weeks after his Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine training and being signed off to work in the role full-time, Thomas was called to an incident that he will remember forever. 13-year-old Daisy had suffered a cardiac arrest on her way to school. The…

Magpas Air Ambulance Dr Chris Hook joined the charity in August. He’s working in a 50:50 split role, providing lifesaving care to patients with Magpas Air Ambulance and facilitating critical care retrievals for children with PaNDR, the region’s Paediatric and Neonatal Decision Support and Retrieval service: the first role of its kind in the country. …

The Magpas Air Ambulance helicopter—and the team that fly it—need to be ready and prepared 24/7 to ensure that our emergency doctors and critical care paramedics can reach patients across the region no matter what. So, every year our pilots undertake special aviation training to perfect their skills and practice emergency scenarios that they would…

The Magpas Air Ambulance team that works on the frontline every day is made up of four crucial roles: A Doctor, Critical Care Paramedic, Pilot and Technical Crew Member. Most people know or could guess what the first three roles entail, but we spoke to one of Magpas Air Ambulance’s Technical Crew Members to find…