Clinical research
At EHAAT, we’re committed to improving the care and experience of our patients, harnessing the transformative power of clinical research to explore new ideas and enhance patient outcomes.
Clinical Research
Essex & Herts Air Ambulance (EHAAT) is committed to driving forward with new ideas and clinical innovations, continually looking for ways to improve – encouraging initiative, creativity and agility. We’re passionate about the transformative power of research, which plays a pivotal role in improving the service and care delivered to our patients.
Patient Involvement Forum
We set up a Patient Involvement Forum at EHAAT, comprising former patients and their family members. Together, they provide invaluable advice on our research projects to ensure we address issues that are important to patients, whose perspectives are represented in every stage of the research.
EHAAT is passionate about involving patients, their family members and the wider public in our research to ensure that it is relevant, acceptable and reflects the priorities of patients and their families. We are looking to expand this group, so if you are interested in finding out more, please contact our Patient Liaison Team at patientliaison@ehaat.org for further details.
RECENT RESEARCH EXAMPLES
Our Centre for Excellence Research Lead, Sarah McLachlan, works closely with our pre-hospital care doctors, critical care paramedics and charity staff, as well as colleagues at Anglia Ruskin University and in other pre-hospital care services. You can learn more about her work and our latest research projects below:
Chief Investigators: Dr Laura Green (Barts Health NHS Trust) and Dr Jason Smith (Academic Department of Military Emergency Medicine); Primary sponsor: NHS Blood and Transplant; Funders: Air Ambulance Charities, NHS Blood and Transplant, Ministry of Defence.
Leads: UK National Trauma Research and Innovation Collaborative, Pre-Hospital Trainee Operated Research Network, Trainee Emergency Research Network, National Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Research & Audit Forum. EHAAT Site Leads: Dr Charlotte Ashworth and Dr Sarah McLachlan.
Lead: Dr Sarah McLachlan (EHAAT, Anglia Ruskin University); Collaborators: Dr Ash Vasireddy (EHAAT), Professor Hilary Bungay (Anglia Ruskin University), Professor Chris Land (Anglia Ruskin University) and Mr Nigel Lang (Devon Air Ambulance); Funder: Health Performance and Wellbeing Research Innovation & Impact Strategic Research Theme Leadership Group, Anglia Ruskin University.
Lead: Dr Lisa Ramage (Pre-Hospital Trainee Operated Research Network); Collaborators: Dr Sarah McLachlan (EHAAT, Anglia Ruskin University), Mr Kristian Williams (Pre-Hospital Trainee Operated Research Network).