Helicopter emergency medical services
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance (HIOWAA) brings an advanced critical care team to sick and injured people in emergency situations across the area.
On 1 November 2018, a partnership was formalised between UHS as the major trauma centre for the southern region, HIOWAA and South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SCAS).
The air ambulance charity is fully responsible for funding the service, while UHS manages and provides clinical governance for the critical care teams of doctors and paramedics. SCAS continues as the dispatch authority.
Benefits of this new partnership include:
- stepping up the commitment to developing and expanding the charity's critical care team of paramedics and doctors
- introducing three HIOWAA critical care team vehicles, all with specialist equipment on board
- focusing on providing the charity teams of paramedics and doctors with more expanded career challenges
- improving the charity's systems used to collect and analyse data.
Body worn cameras
We often take video footage using body worn video cameras (BWVC’s) whilst we are attending to you during your medical emergency.
On the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance website, you can read the full terms and conditions around this, the reasons we take recordings, details on sharing and storing of images and recordings, and what to do if you have any concerns or worries about this.
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance: Body worn cameras