DEVON Air Ambulance undertook more than 2,000 missions last year, providing critical care in emergencies, day and night.

Last year was another busy year for the charity.

It attended 2,125 land and air missions across Devon and neighbouring counties.

Of the 2,125 missions, 395 were night missions, which are only possible thanks the charity’s network of more than 200 Community Landing Sites (CLSs) across Devon.

Devon Air Ambulance’s Volunteer Responders were also tasked to 70 missions.

The Volunteer Responder scheme is an initiative by the charity, where Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) dispatchers call on our off-duty clinicians to respond to a medical emergency they are local to.

The most common cause of medical emergency over the 12 months was once again incidences of cardiac arrest; 16.2 per cent of missions were to assist cardiac arrest patients.

This patient group accounted for nearly one third of all patients (27.9 per cent) in 2025.

Devon Air Ambulance Chief Executive, Greg Allen, said: ‘Last year, 346 cardiac arrest patients were assisted by our crews.

‘Being able to get our medical teams to someone experiencing a cardiac arrest can help give that patient a better chance of survival. In many cases, though, we see that survival rates in patients are maximized when CPR or a defibrillator is already being used on a patient before our crews can even get there.

‘I’d urge everyone in our community to book a CPR and defibrillator awareness session with Devon Air Ambulance, so that more members of the public can learn life saving skills and help our crews save even more lives.

‘None of these lifesaving missions would be possible without the continued generosity of our supporters.

‘We thank our local community, for enabling crews to continue providing specialist, time-critical, pre-hospital care to patients when they need it most.’