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Please help me raise money for this very worthwhile cause, the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance. 

The Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance is based at East Midlands Airport and is a registered charity, it relies totally on public donations, fundraising activities and sponsorship.

This service has moved the emphasis away from simply transporting casualties to hospital, to getting senior doctors and consultants to the scene of incidents as quickly as possible. DLRAA conveys its patients to specialist hospitals that can help specific injuries, not just the nearest hospital.

DLRAA provides life saving treatment and medication on-site and en-route to hospital. This is an invaluable service in cases where land ambulances are unable to access the scene or where transfer by land ambulance would be too slow or create more injury to the patient.

DLRAA's primary response area is the 2,100 square miles of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland. It will serve in excess of 1.4 million people. Currently only able to operate in daylight hours due to the restrictive leasing costs of flying at night, DLRAA aims to become the first service in the UK to operate 24 hours per day. The average cost per mission is around £1000 and the annual basic running cost of the service is over £1.5 million.

The air ambulance is a very valuable service as Derbyshire is such a rural county with hard-to-reach places, which only a helicopter can access.

For more information, visit their website at www.dlraa.co.uk.

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