Description of Business: Our Critical Care Team stand ready to save the lives of Gloucestershire people.

We provide emergency care to people who are in a state so critical that they require the specialist skills of our team at the scene of the accident or medical incident. Though we are part of the regional 999 response service, we are a charity entirely funded by local people just like you. GWAAC saves lives across Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, Gloucestershire, North Somerset and parts of Wiltshire.

How we work

We don’t simply fly people to the nearest hospital. Our priority is to get to the patient fast, by car or helicopter, whichever is most appropriate. We treat people at the scene, on the road and in the air, providing complex interventions to stabilise and treat the patient and give them the best chance of a positive outcome. The service we provide is reliant on our brilliant team of pilots, Advanced and Specialist Paramedics and Consultant Doctors who specialise in pre-hospital care.

2022 saw us called out to 1,808 missions, that’s five a day, at an average cost of more than £2000 per mission.

Our busiest county for callouts is Gloucestershire and nearly half of those missions are by helicopter which costs much more. We need to raise £4m a year to continue operating at this level and we rely entirely on the generosity of our community to achieve this.

Without you, we couldn't do it. It’s your support that allow us to keep the air ambulance going, so our team can keep saving lives.