Specialist paediatric care is not available in every hospital in England: 95% of care for critically ill babies & children is delivered by expert teams. Every year, around 5,800 babies and children who require emergency care must undergo long road journeys to reach the specialist treatment they need. However, sometimes a child's condition is so serious they cannot be moved safely by land to receive treatment. And in some cases these children cannot be moved at all as they are simply too ill.

The Children's Air Ambulance is able to transfer these critically ill patients quickly and efficiently by air to the specialist paediatric unit that they need to go to recieve expert care. In cases where the child is too sick to be moved, we can transfer the clinical experts directly to the child, meaning that they can be there as quickly as possible. This also saves time for the consultants, who do not have to be transferred by a land ambulance.