page_title: Strensham services
section_title: Air ambulance
hierarchical_section_title: Strensham services / Air ambulance
caption_attribution_description: Air Ambulance taking off from Strensham Services M5
context_page_description: Strensham services is a motorway service station on the M5 in Worcestershire, England. It is operated by Roadchef. In August 2011, it was rated as 4 stars and 3 stars by quality assessors at Visit England.
  Unusually for a motorway service station, the two sites are about half a mile apart due to the proximity of junction 8. The services opened with the motorway in 1962 and have undergone many developments over time, largely due to the evolution of the motorway, which at the time of its opening ran from Birmingham to Strensham but now runs to Exeter some 100 miles southwards. It was the first service station on the M5. The service station is also an operational base for the Midlands Air Ambulance.
context_section_description: The Midlands Air Ambulance, formerly known as the Worcestershire County Air Ambulance, which has been operating since 1991, moved to the Strensham site in 1998 under a sponsorship deal with Take a Break, who were operating the service area at the time. Access to the air ambulance site can be made from the service station itself or from the local road network via the staff entrance to the services. An open day is held at the site each year to raise money for the operation of the air ambulance. In May 2008 the operational hours of the service was increased from 12 to 14 hours each day, as a result of this, landing lights needed to be installed at the base to enable night time use.
caption: The air ambulance
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