Health Correspondent, BBC Wales
BBCHundreds of patients were remembered by the Wales Air Ambulance in the last two years as the resources were in the wrong place, Dan has claimed.
Chief Executive Sura Barns stated that poor road networks around two bases in Welshpool, Pavis, and Carneerfon, Guvinids, with lack of overnight coverage, meant that resources were used less and merged on a new site.
He said that 551 patients treated by ambulance service in two years could not receive additional air ambulance response.
The plan to merge two bases has fulfilled strict opposition from campaigners, who said that the power of Bhavna had only deepened, Despite this Their failed legal challenge To stop it.
The Wales Air Ambulance has one and two hideouts – in Dafen, Carmarthashire and Cardiff.
Each base consists of a helicopter and car, but only the cardiff is on only 24 hours, others run 07: 00-19: 00 or 08: 00-20: 00.
Ms. Barns said that the 2020 audit revealed that “we were missing a significant number of patients in mid and North Wales”, mostly in the evening and overnight.
From 2022–2024, only 81 were seen in donations, out of 632 people who met the norms of an air ambulance.
It is compared to 983 in South Wales.
The analysis showed that there were 360 changes between January 2023 and December 2024, where no patient was seen by the crew at Welshpool and Carnearfon as compared to 32 in Cardiff and Dafen.
Ms. Barns said “the biggest driver of that inequality” was the staffing hour, but the bad road network around the locations was also a factor.
“Now, it’s not quite good … You can see why we felt that inequality in service was something that we needed to deal with,” he said.
Ms. Barns stated that the use of helicopters was a default option in rural areas, but “rapidly we sees our aircraft” dragging in more urban areas in the north-east Wales that “were very well suited for road reaction”.
He said that the helicopter and cars plan with A55 from 2026 would allow them to reserve the aircraft for more rural emergency situations.
Bob Benan of Welshpool, who has been heavily involved in an expedition to save Aadhaar, said that he believes Wales Air Ambulance “Just carrying the need for anamat from one area to another”.
Due to no A&E nearby, he said that the strength of support in the area was “due to the fact that we need a pre-hospital care system on the hand at a few minutes away”.
Some funders had earlier suggested that they will do Pull their support If the Welshpool site was closed.
Mr. Bayon said that it was below people to “follow their moral conscience”, but he felt that many people could be less inclined to support it when the local base is closed.
Charity argues that the response focuses on time and the notion that it funds its role fundamentally instead of a hospital.
“We are not the first response,” said Ms. Barns. “We participate in almost every example, ambulance service will reach there before us.”
He also said that it was not given that the air ambulance must have also come from the nearest base and now the emphasis was laid on the treatment of people at the scene.
“Heavy element has access to crew and correct skills, not minutes and seconds that I think people ever think that it matters.”
Derwin Jones has been an important care businessman for six years, mainly based on carnarfon until his recent steps in South Wales were not.
“If I am honest with blunt, it is very busy in South Wales and I think within this role we need to practice our skills to maintain the ability,” he said.
He described this role as “a jack of all trades”, which cover aspects of A&E Work, Intensive Care, and A anesthetic departments, which are all from the roadside.
His role includes shifts at the 999 Control Center, which are eligible for Emergency Medical Retry and Transfer Service (EMRTs), which are an air ambulance aircraft and specialist crew of expert crew on cars.
He said, “This has really opened my eyes in the last few months, how much we are really missing in the middle and north,” he said.
Treatment has also changed, the meaning response time is “not an issue” provides “the first wave of care” with paramedics, followed by EMRTs.
Important care doctors as well as highly trained advisors who cover the changes on a rota base in addition to the roles of their NHS hospital, each of them is an expert in the “pre-hospital emergency medicine”.
Mr. Jones said that since the EMRTS team joined the air ambulance service in 2015, “We have reduced the mortality and sickness by 37%from the Blunt Trauma”.
Teams carry general anesthetic and even do open heart surgery, but to ensure that the patient is taken to the most suitable hospital, is another important part.
In the past, patients will be taken to a nearby hospital and before it would be a CT scan before it is known whether they need to be taken to a major trauma center.
Mr. Jones said that it may take up to six hours, while now “if we take 20 minutes more time to go to the scene, they are still within our major trauma center within an hour and an hour – in the roadside and in the road or in the car or in the car”.
In the past, patients will be taken to a nearby hospital and before it would be a CT scan before it is known whether they need to be taken to a major trauma center.
Mr. Jones said that it may take up to six hours, while now “if we take 20 minutes more time to go to the scene, they are still within our major trauma center within an hour and an hour – in the roadside and in the road or in the car or in the car”.
About 13 calls a day – 1% of the total call – this specialist is eligible for this specialist care for the ambulance service.
In July 2021, Laura Davis’s husband Arvel and seven -year -old daughter Sofia were among them, when they were involved in an accident away from their home in Lalanwada, Carmarthashire.
Air ambulances from Cardiff and Welshpool were sent from Dafen with a road crew, but Arvel died on the spot.
Laura asked if her husband would have been saved if she made it in the hospital and in a conversation with the Care team, she said she was able to understand the treatment that she had found in the scene “the same as anyone could distribute the hospital”.
He said: “It was a great comfort, it helps to process loss and definitely helps me answer a lot of questions.”
He said that the sympathy of “Real Life Superhero” was part of the reason she had joined as a charity trustee.
While the medical staff is supplied by NHS Wales, funding for everything else is done by Wales Air Ambulance Charity.
“When we were taken to Heath, that care was extended to myself and my daughter [hospital in Cardiff] Was incredible.
“I was overwhelmed, I was nervous and they really used to hold my hand only through the process.”
