About Lucy Air Ambulance

Lucy AAC have been flying children to hospital for over 10 years. Despite experiencing significant income loss due to Covid-19, Lucy AAC flew every child who needed an aeroplane transfer and supported the NHS in any way they could during the pandemic. They continue to work closely with NHS transport teams and neonatal/paediatric consultants across the UK to ensure that their service is as widely available to children as possible. The NHS is relying on Lucy AAC now more than ever before to provide this essential service at no cost.

Research Lucy AAC conducted in 2020 with key NHS transport clinicians, showed that they were required to facilitate more time-critical transfers for children needing specialist care. In response, Lucy AAC introduced pre-approved transfer funding to support NHS Centres of Excellence like Birmingham Children’s Hospital and the Great North Children’s Hospital. This meant that NHS transport teams could work with Lucy AAC to mobilise transfers faster. Already these pre-approved funds have proved to be vital for moving children that need to receive transplants and as a direct result of this innovation, in 2020-21 Lucy AAC flew more children for transplants than ever before.