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Royal Sussex County Hospital: Air Ambulance Services

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN HL3929, tabled on 1 December 2022

To ask His Majesty's Government when they anticipate the helipad located on top of the Royal Sussex County Hospital tower block will become operational.

Answered on

9 December 2022

The structure of the helideck has been approved by the Civil Aviation Authority. It has the capacity to receive all the types of helicopter regularly used by the emergency services and the military in the area to transfer patients. The patient care and transfer model for the helideck has been approved by the University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust’s clinical experts and by partner organisations, including the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulance service. The helideck is scheduled to open in the autumn of 2023.