HC Deb 22 March 1990 vol 169 c728W
Mr. Cohen

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what charges he expects to be generated by the London Air Ambulance; who he anticipates will be the payers and whom the beneficiaries; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Freeman

Express Newspapers plc is providing I he aircraft used by the helicopter emergency medical service completely free of charge to the National Health Service. This use of a medically staffed helicopter for emergency purposes is to be the subject of an independent evaluation to be carried out by Professor Brian Williams of the department of community medicine, Sheffield university.

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