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Magpas Air Ambulance experienced its busiest year on record in 2025, as the publicly funded emergency service was activated 1,948 times.
The Cambridgeshire-based charity’s team of advanced doctors and paramedics are specially trained in pre-hospital emergency medicine and are therefore only called to the most seriously ill and injured patients across the East of England.
The service responded to incidents in 12 counties in and around the East of England last year, treating anyone in the community in life-threatening emergencies; from newborn babies to 99-year-olds.
Magpas Air Ambulance was most often called to treat patients suffering medical emergencies (such as cardiac arrests), and patients injured in road traffic collisions, accidental injuries and assaults.
Last year, the team of advanced clinicians performed 655 specialist pre-hospital procedures on roadsides, in people’s homes, in rural countryside locations and busy towns and estates.
Magpas Air Ambulance also places strong emphasis on building lifesaving skills within local communities, having trained thousands of people in CPR and the use of defibrillators, while actively promoting equality in bystander intervention. The charity says that 73% of cardiac arrest patients it attended had received CPR before crews arrived — a proportion that continues to rise each year.
On call 24/7, 37% of Magpas Air Ambulance’s missions took place overnight. And the demand for lifesaving care continued right through to the end of 2025, as Magpas Air Ambulance provided around the clock cover across the Christmas period: responding to 56 emergencies between Christmas Eve and New Year’s Day alone.
Reflecting on the busy year, Magpas Air Ambulance Chief Executive Daryl Brown MBE DL said, “2025 was our busiest year to date, continuing a clear and consistent trend of increasing activations year on year. This growth shows just how much the demand for our air ambulance service is rising, and we are proud to be able to respond when critically ill and injured patients need us most.
“We are always looking at ways to strengthen and grow our lifesaving clinical services so that we can be there for every patient who needs our care. None of this would be possible without the incredible generosity of the public and the tireless fundraising efforts of the communities we serve. Their support enables us to provide a vital, lifesaving service for our region; helping to save so many lives.”
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