Mission statistics for 2022 reveal just how vital the response of the Devon Air Ambulance medical emergency service is to the people of Devon, as they experience another incredibly busy year.

HEMS pilot and director Nigel Hare has received a lifetime achievement award from Air Ambulances UK, in recognition of how he has been instrumental in the way the sector has forged ahead in its short life.

Aeromedical critical care doctors and paramedics across the UK have had their busiest year ever. 2021 saw air ambulance charities attend thousands of life threatening emergencies and fly the ill and injured to hospital.