Our 2025 Missions Data - another busy year
2025 was another busy year for us with the charity attending 2,125 land and air missions across Devon and neighbouring counties. We are grateful to the local community for the support that enables us to continue our vital, lifesaving service.
Medical emergencies can impact lives anywhere and at any time. Our pilots, paramedics and doctors are ready to respond by air and by road, with lifesaving kit and the skills to provide crucial, time-critical care.
Of the 2,125 missions, we were called to assist in 2025, 395 were night missions. With a network of more than 200 Community Landing Sites (CLSs) across Devon, our crews are able to get to patients during the hours of darkness.
Our 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% of missions were to assist cardiac arrest patients. This patient group accounted for nearly one third of all patients (27.9%) 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.’
Find out more about how to learn lifesaving CPR skills and feel confident using a defibrillator
In 2025, our crew was also tasked to 1,047 trauma related incidents and 266 road traffic collisions. Of the 2,125 total missions attended over the 12 months, we assisted 125 children aged 0-17 years, 754 adults aged 18-69 and 356 patients over 70 years of age.
