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Uploaded by on Aug 3, 2009

Part 1 of 5. From the fly on the wall documentary "Medic One - Life and Death in London" featuring Londons Air Ambulance. Broadcast on the BBC on 1st June 2009.

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  • is there really only one helicopter for london??

  • Yes there is only one helicopter that covers the whole of the Greater London area within the M25.

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  • I managed to miss this on TV so thanks for posting... will you do the other parts too?

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  • @RBAC1 200,000 Medical calls a year for FDNY Vs 1,500,000 for London Ambulance...

  • @leegt5 Is this Helicopter sponsored or paid by Virgin ?

  • @RBAC1 there might be more medical emergencys in nyc but LAS takes more calls then any one ambulance service just because they are virtualy the only ambulance service in London unlike nyc where they have loads of hospital based ambulances aswel as the FDNY

  • @NeedHeadMusic ok i did not watch far enough :) Great that they also get this service :)

  • Nice. But I saw a documentary about a helicopter team in germany and they did not have to run to the scene. A police car drove them. I think this is much better for the doctor and the paramedic to focus.

  • @RBAC1 After watching this documentary, I am left with saying London EMS is the most unique EMS system in the World..

  • Busiest in the World ? I don't think so ! NYC FDNY EMS.

  • Im fully qualified medic and i can say that a big problem is that our emercency doctors have only an 40 hour cours after their study!

    So every gynecologist and GP can do that course and work as a emercency physican and thats far to little education.So we have good qualified medics and often bad doctors. I think good docs are important for a professionell ambulance service, but quality is better then quantity. Switzerland is showing us how it would work with a combination of doctors and medics.

  • Our Ambulance service is based on emercency doctors.

    In Vienna we have 1 Helicopter vor 2mio people. Whole in whole we have 14 doctors in Vienna, normaly on rapid response cars

    The paramedics have different education levels. With the highest level yo are also allowed to perform i.v , intubation and applicate some drugs. Unfortunately Vienna is the only area where we have a professional paramedics, the rest is volunteer based. So medics in rural areas have normaly low education levels.

  • @corley989 there are 2 Helicopters for the City of Hamburg, Population around 2 Million.

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