This month, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) and SERV Kent Bloodrunners – a charity that provides emergency courier services to transport blood products – are marking the tenth anniversary of SERV’s first delivery of blood to the life-saving charity. Through this partnership, KSS became one of the first UK Air Ambulance services…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) needs your support! Having just announced that 2022 was the busiest year in its 33-year history, the life-saving charity is urgently seeking to recruit more volunteers in order to help with more events and activities in the coming year. The charity, which provides world-leading pre-hospital emergency care 24/7,…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has reported that 2022 has been the busiest year in its 33-year history. Between 1st January 2022 and 31st December 2022, the charity’s crews of pilots, doctors and paramedics responded to 3,224 incidents, 64% by helicopter and 36% by Rapid Response Vehicle. 1,353 of the call outs were…
On Friday 25 November Tracey Crouch, MP for Chatham and Aylesford, attended the Rochester headquarters of Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) to present the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medals to front line staff from the life-saving charity. KSS invited Tracey Crouch to present the medals in recognition of the exceptional role she played,…
With over 27,000 people killed or seriously injured on Britain’s roads last year[1], Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is taking part in this year’s Road Safety Week (14-20 November 2022) to raise awareness of the steps we can all take to make our roads safer. Led by charity BRAKE, the 2022 Road…
Launching this November, Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) is asking residents of Kent, Surrey and Sussex to Host a Roast and help the life-saving charity raise vital funds. With the prospect of days getting colder and nights drawing in, KSS is inviting people to come together with friends, family or colleagues to…
Over a third (36%) of UK adults do not have CPR life-saving skills to save a life in an emergency, and just under half (43%) would not feel confident performing chest compressions if they were to witness someone having a cardiac arrest. A survey by Warwick University of over 4,000 adults on attitudes towards…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has unveiled its ambitious Five Year Strategy (2022- 2027) ‘Working Together to Save More Lives’, created to help take important steps towards realising its vision of an end to preventable loss of life from medical emergency. With demand for its world-leading pre-hospital Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS)…
HASLEWORKS HOSTS RECEPTION FOR JEREMY HUNT MP’S CAMPAIGN FOR NEW CANCER & SURGICAL INNOVATION CENTRE On Thursday 31 March, HasleWorks – a new co-working space in Haslemere Town Centre – hosted a reception to thank members of the local community for supporting Jeremy Hunt MP’s fundraising campaign for the new Cancer & Surgical Innovation…
Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex (KSS) has strengthened its Board with the appointment of four new Trustees. The new Trustees are: Nick Hall – Nick’s interest in Air Ambulance services began with the Royal Flying Doctor Service – providing medical support in remote communities in Australia. He became more passionate about what…