Health & Wellbeing Community & Social Justice 2025
North West Air Ambulance Charity

Impact Report 2024-25

North West Air Ambulance Charity attended 3,371 call-outs in 2024-25, a 6.4% increase, treating 1,652 patients across the North West. Blood is now carried on all aircraft and critical care cars, and the night car service expanded to seven nights a week. Patients treated at night rose 84.6% year-on-year. A new five-year strategy was launched and patient aftercare was embedded across all six regional major trauma centres. Income was £15.6m and expenditure £16.1m.

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Three helicopters operating from Blackpool Airport and Manchester Barton Aerodrome; four critical care cars operating seven nights per week (6pm–2am); patient aftercare across six major trauma centres; blood transfusion programme; research and audit group; education leadership team; major trauma conference Custom geography from upload: North West England

📊Key Metrics

3,371 call-outs in 2024-25 — a 6.4% increase on the previous year — serving 8 million people across the North West Key Metric 1
1,652 patients treated, a 6.9% increase, including 277 patients treated at night (up 84.6%) Key Metric 2
106 blood transfusions administered — blood now on board all three helicopters and four critical care cars Key Metric 3

✅Key Outcomes

  • Night car service expanded from two to seven nights per week from October 2024, significantly increasing nighttime critical care coverage
  • Over 450 patients have received blood transfusions from NWAA since the programme began in 2019
  • 106 charity staff and new five-year strategy launched across five pillars: research, training, people, finance and profile

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