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Article: What price life?; Most of Britain's life-saving air ambulance operations are not government-funded because they are 'not value for money'. Crash survivor Lisa Salmon investigates.(Health)
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Byline: Lisa Salmon
They cut through the air, slashing precious minutes off the time it takes to get seriously injured patients to hospital. Yet despite saving hundreds of lives every year the majority of Britain's air ambulance operations receive no funding from the National Health Service.
Instead they rely on sponsorship, donations and fundraising. But what price is a life?
There is certainly no doubt that the service saves lives. Since the first air ambulance took off from Cornwall in 1982, a nationwide network has developed with 18 services ...