Posts by Lydia Crump
Celebrating a prestigious national award win
Three leading air ambulance charities have won the Excellence in Collaboration category at the UK Excellence Awards 2026, recognising their pioneering work to share knowledge, strengthen services and help save lives across the East of England. The award win celebrates the groundbreaking Sharing for Success partnership between Magpas Air Ambulance, Essex & Herts Air Ambulance…
Read MoreMagpas Air Ambulance responds to Bedfordshire train collisionÂ
On Friday, 19 June, Magpas Air Ambulance—alongside East Anglian Air Ambulance and Essex & Herts Air Ambulance—was dispatched by the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) to a train collision in Bedfordshire.  Working alongside colleagues from London’s Air Ambulance, Midlands Air Ambulance, The Air Ambulance Service and other emergency service partners, our teams provided advanced critical care to those…
Read MoreSimon Dodd, Technical Crew Member
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…
Read MoreAli Hieatt, Doctor
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…
Read MoreMagpas Air Ambulance supporting women every day of the year
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…
Read MoreAlice is going the extra mile for charity that saved her life
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…
Read MoreCharlotte Haldane, Doctor
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…
Read MoreRishi Rallan, Doctor
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. …
Read MoreChris Hook, Doctor
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. …
Read MoreEd Braycotton, Chief Unit Pilot
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…
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