Air ambulance charity expands with second helicopter for Lincolnshire coast
The new helicopter will be white
An air ambulance landing on the beach in Cleethorpes for a job on Thursday, May 27, 2021. | Photo: LNAA
Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance will expand its life-saving service with a second helicopter responding to emergencies on the Lincolnshire coast this summer.
The charity is already seeing a rise in missions across its patch and was deployed to 148 emergencies in April this year, compared to 49 over the same period in 2020.
Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance will have a Critical Care Car dedicated to the east coast from June 1. The helicopter will take over from June 21 until August 31.
COVID vaccines
Last week, Lincolnshire’s NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) apologised after a Lincoln resident under the age of 40 was turned away at the Showground vaccination site due to the unavailability of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine.
Bosses have now confirmed the site is focusing on Oxford-AstraZeneca (AZ) second doses and would need to expand to accommodate Pfizer vaccines for under 40s.
A week on and another Lincolnshire resident, Oliver Peatman, 31, was turned away from the Showground due to his age and supply issues, and had to travel to a centre in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
He said: “Why has it all gone so wrong for my age group?! When it was seeming to be almost faultless with all older age groups? Absolute shambles.