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March 2012

The helipad at Peterborough City Hospital has been formally opened. The East Anglian Air Ambulance completed a trial run and then became the first operational aircraft to use the new helipad with a patient on board the following day. The helipad is a trolley push from the emergency department and negates the need for a secondary transfer and the inherent delays in definitive patient care. The East of England Trauma Network will go live this year and it is expected that Peterborough will be designated a Trauma Unit, receiving critically injured patients for stabilisation prior to transfer to the region's Major Trauma Centre.