Babcock safety boost for air ambulance teams

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Babcock has unveiled new tools to help UK air ambulance teams stay safe when responding to the COVID-19 virus.

Babcock operates a fleet of over 20 charity-funded air ambulances across Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales. By drawing on the experiences of its air ambulance experts in Spain, Italy and France, the company created a new framework system that allows UK H145 air ambulances to fly with specialist patient isolation pods that work with on-board medical systems.

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Babcock engineers in the UK and Spain have also collaborated on the design and development of a new on-board barrier which separates the medical teams from the flight crews on all their international fleet of air ambulance helicopters. This has since been customised by teams in Staverton, Gloucestershire, and following rapid prototyping by Babcock in Devonport the system is fully approved for use on EC135, H145 and AW109 air ambulance helicopters.

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