Magpas Air Ambulance

Our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant

Magpas Air Ambulance has worked with and supported our Armed Forces for 50 years, many of our clinicians, staff and supporters have been serving personnel, reservists and veterans over the years, as such the Charity commits to honour the United Kingdom and NATO Armed Forces through its signing up to the Armed Forces Covenant. We will support the Armed Forces Community through the work that we do and recognise the value Serving Personnel, Regular and Reservists, Veterans and military families contribute to our charity, its life saving services and to our wider country. We will ensure our community activities include the armed forces, we commit to continue to train Armed Forces Defence Medical Staff (DMS), host DMS clinical secondments in our Air Ambulance Service and ensure that all of our job vacancies and volunteering opportunities are open to serving personnel, reservists and veterans.

About us

Magpas Air Ambulance bring the very best pre-hospital emergency care, in the air or on land, including treatments usually only available in a hospital. Our service operates 24/7 and, on average, answers four calls for help a day treating around 900 patients in life-threatening emergencies every year.

We serve the communities of Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire and across the East of England and are dispatched by both the East of England and the East Midlands Ambulance Service Trusts – caring for a population of over 10 million.

The oldest emergency medical charity of its kind, since 1971 we’ve treated over 60,000 patients. Magpas Air Ambulance is not a state-funded service and relies on generous public donations to continue saving lives.