page_title: Children's Air Ambulance
section_title: Clinical partners
hierarchical_section_title: Children's Air Ambulance / Clinical partners
caption_attribution_description: English: The Children's Air Ambulance helicopter at Coventry Airport.
context_page_description: The Children's Air Ambulance is an air ambulance charity that transfers critically ill children from local hospitals to specialist paediatric centres throughout Great Britain. It also moves specialist teams and equipment to local hospitals when a child is too sick to travel. The service also sometimes acts as a patient transport service, returning children and families home after treatment. It was founded in 2005, and has been run by The Air Ambulance Service charity since 2011. More than 400 missions have been performed since the service began. The number of missions is anticipated to rise to more than 600 per year with the launch of the new helicopters.
context_section_description: TCAA has nine clinical partners which commission transfers:
  The North West and North Wales Transport Service (NWTS)
  East Midlands Children's Heart Care Association (ECMO)
  The Children's Acute Transport Service (CATS)
  The Southampton Oxford Retrieval Team (SORT)
  Embrace
  South Thames Retrieval Service (STRS)
  Leicester PICU's transfer team
  Wales & West Acute Transport for Children (WATCh)
  Newborn Emergency Stabilisation & Transport Team (NEST)
caption: G-HEMZ, the former Children's Air Ambulance at Coventry Airport.
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