Magpas Air Ambulance

Magpas Key Facts

Who are we?
Magpas Air Ambulance is a charity which brings essential lifesaving care by land and air to patients in life-threatening emergencies in the East of England and beyond. Some of the UK’s expert doctors and paramedics volunteer their own time to work with us.
We lead the way in trauma care training and have a strong clinical heritage of over 45 years. Today, we offer pioneering training to doctors and paramedics wishing to specialise in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine (PHEM), for which we are renowned in the medical world.

What do we do?
The Magpas Air Ambulance medical team receives enhanced training which allows them to offer procedures and treatments at the scene, like general anaesthetic, which are usually only available in hospital.
Our enhanced doctors and paramedics support the ambulance service by bringing additional skills and treatments to the scene of an incident. The frontline care the Magpas Air Ambulance team delivers doesn’t just save lives, it helps seriously ill and injured people return to a good quality of life.

Why?
The enhanced frontline care Magpas Air Ambulance delivers to the scene of medical emergencies doesn’t just save lives; it helps seriously ill and injured people return to a good quality of life.

How are we funded?
Magpas Air Ambulance is not a state-funded service and relies on generous public donations to continue saving lives. Since 1971 we’ve treated over 60,000 patients.

When is our service available?
We are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Typically we respond between 7am and 7pm by land and air and 7pm to 7am by land.

Where?
Our Magpas Air Ambulance operations base is at RAF Wyton. Our Magpas Air Ambulance HQ is based in Huntingdon at Centenary House.
Magpas Air Ambulance operates a helicopter and rapid response vehicles from our base near Huntingdon in Cambridgeshire. We are dispatched to medical incidents in the East of England beyond.