Preventing People from becoming Patients

Many members of our critical care team play an important part in promoting the national integration of injury prevention into NHS trauma systems...

Some of these initiatives include DocBike, Bike Safe, Biker Down, Safe Drive Stay Alive and Farmer Down which all play an instrumental part in helping to reduce the number of accidents or deaths within our local community.

By actively supporting injury prevention, we can help save even more lives. In a modern-day society, engaging in injury prevention is not only expected of us, but also morally the right thing to do.

Figure1: How knowledge and experience from DSAA can be utilised to feed back into preventing people becoming patients.

Find more information about these injury prevention initiatives

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Charity Quiz Night in Weymouth
CPR and Defibrillator Awareness Training
“Their knowledge proved crucial that day” - Jonathan's Story

Jonathan Belke was on vacation with his wife in West Lulworth. They decided to walk to Durdle Door from where they were staying and made their way up the hill for a relaxing lunch at Lulworth Cove. Without warning, Jonathan suffered a cardiac arrest.
Carly & Taylor Wing walk

As it's an amazing service and shocked that you rely on donations only. Air ambulance has attended to some friend's of mine that have been in accidents previously. I think it's great what you do and would be amazing to try and raise as much as I can for a great cause!

On the Road

In April 2019, our practitioners took to the road by car in a bid to take outreach to a new level...
Outreach: Engagement and Interaction

Patients become seriously injured or ill in many different situations and environments and therefore have initial contact with a wide range of professionals and volunteers...
Grant Awarded

Community first responders play a vital role in a patient’s chain of survival...
Bridging the Gap

Our patient and family liaison nurses provide an added layer of support for our patients...
Operating the AW169 in an Air Ambulance Role

The demands on an air ambulance and crew are intense, so it is essential to have an aircraft that can meet the day-to-day challenges of running our service...
20 Years Flying High

Over the past two decades, the changes on the clinical side have certainly been significant. To keep pace with these improvements, it has also been essential to update our aircraft to ensure we are delivering the best possible service to our patients...
Providing Critical Care

Today, we are one of a few air ambulance services operating with a critical care team both during the day and at night using our AW169 helicopter and critical care car...
Key Partnerships with the NHS

As you might expect, Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance work in close partnership with the NHS on a number of fronts...
A Busy Year: 2016

2016 was most definitely a busy and significant year as we made the transition to providing a full critical care service for every mission...
The Transition Between Models

Changing our clinical model of operation from the twin-paramedic model to that of a critical care team took time, planning, investment and teamwork...