![]() What is supposed to be one of the happiest times of the year can very quickly become the worst.īut as a team, we’re here to give patients the best possible chance of survival and recovery by bringing hospital-level care to people in their ultimate moment of need-whenever and wherever that is. When tragedy strikes around Christmas, it feels particularly poignant. We’re trained to always provide patients with the best possible medical care whenever we’re called but I think we’re even more acutely aware of the consequence of our actions when we’re treating patients on Christmas Day. We’re the last guests people expect to turn up that day. We could land in the middle of a field when someone’s been taken ill on their traditional Christmas Day walk. We could end up in a family home. We could be called to someone who’s been caught in a road traffic collision on their way to visit family. ![]() No one expects that they’re going to need Magpas Air Ambulance that day. ![]() Working this Christmas is important to me. Coming back to cold food is part and parcel of the job! My team and I will still try and cook a meal in the small kitchen at the operations base, but we also need to be ready to drop everything, leaving the second the emergency phone rings–as it usually does just as we’re about to sit down. However, it’ll be very different this year. Usually I’d be spending time with my family and friends taking part in all the traditions, donning my reindeer jumper and sitting down to a big Christmas dinner. I joined Magpas Air Ambulance earlier this year, and I’ll be on shift this Christmas Day.
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