Training flight physicians

The training courses flight physicians and nurses must undertake are undoubtedly onerous, but they leave them prepared to deal with the most critical patients in challenging conditions, according to James...

Ensuring transparency in international air ambulance accreditation

At ITIC Global 2013, a session on air ambulance accreditation transparency provoked a lively debate among the accrediting organisations and buyers of air ambulance services. With experts on both sides...

Intensive care in the air

Air ambulances come in all shapes and sizes and can adapt to many different roles. But when it comes to air ambulances marketing themselves as providing ‘intensive care’, or having...

Striving for ambulance pricing transparency

The issue of transparency is almost as old as the international air ambulance industry itself, but what are the main contentions regarding this matter for those operating and utilising fixed-wing...

Air ambulance business: to accredit or not to accredit?

What’s the view on accreditation – essential, just desirable or a necessary evil – within the air ambulance industry? Stewart Farr dives into the deep end of the accreditation pool