police helicopter hovering around

[i*Rate]

Does anyone know why the helicopter has been buzzing around the Rye area for the past twenty minutes or so?

[BanJo]

We were just joking that someone would post something about this!

[????]

*Twitches loft blinds*

[PeckhamRose]

Dunno, but have just returned from the Annual meeting of Members of Kings College Hospital and learned that Ruskin Park is designated as a helicopter landing pad. The poor s0ds then have to be carted out into an ambulance and bumped over pavement and road to the A&E department...

Also learned that there is a 50% cut in deaths from gun and knife crime in Lambeth. NOT because people are resisting the urge to kill one another, but because when they attempt it, the A&E department are getting better at saving the victims' lives.

Back to topic, it was probably some-one cycling on the pavement.

[EDKiwi]

It looked to me like it was over the circus.....I reckon it's those damn clowns again.

[Bellerophon]

PeckhamRose, I too have spoken informally to KCH staff who inform me that they are fast becoming a centre of excellence in the treatment of gunshot wounds, to rival those of BCH and Musgrave Park at the height of the troubles in NI

At the same time impressive, yet deeply depressing

[buggie]

The landing site being in the park isn't new (where exactly onsite could they land?!) esp as the helicopter only flys in daylight hrs this works ok. The ambulance meets them in the park and drives them down to the ED, rather than "bumping them over the pavement" and typically these pt's are sedated and intubated so they don't remember much of it, and even with the ambulance transfer considering the distance from Kings that these pt's come, they arrive much quicker than if just by road.

PeckhamRose Wrote:

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> Dunno, but have just returned from the Annual

> meeting of Members of Kings College Hospital and

> learned that Ruskin Park is designated as a

> helicopter landing pad. The poor s0ds then have to

> be carted out into an ambulance and bumped over

> pavement and road to the A&E department...

> Also learned that there is a 50% cut in deaths

> from gun and knife crime in Lambeth. NOT because

> people are resisting the urge to kill one another,

> but because when they attempt it, the A&E

> department are getting better at saving the

> victims' lives.

> Back to topic, it was probably some-one cycling on

> the pavement.

[thexwinglessxbird]

I have absolutely no idea, but I have been hearing it for the past couple days & have been curious.

[matthew123]

Perhaps the helicopter could land directly outside King's A&E on Denmark Hill itself - the road seems wide enough. I think the traffic measures needed could be implemented to allow this to happen. It might mean the difference between life and death cutting out the ambulance playing piggy in the middle.

[PeckhamRose]

I was at the meeting, incubation and everything is fine but the hospital are still looking to apply to build a heliport on a hospital building somewhere.

As for what happened last night, no idea. But it sounds clown related to me!

[buggie]

This would be impossible - how on earth would all the police needed to close the road for the 15-20mins required appear from?? Also this would cause dangerous delays to other emergencies (both walk-in and ambulance) from reaching the dept - how would you feel if it was your friend/family member having a heart attack in the back of an ambulance while stuck in a queue for 20 mins.

There have been various queries about a helipad, but lots of the ED end of the hospital is listed and up on top of the ruskin wing wouldn't be appropriate as it is physically so far away from the ED/would rely too heavily on lifts.

matthew123 Wrote:

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> Perhaps the helicopter could land directly outside

> King's A&E on Denmark Hill itself - the road seems

> wide enough. I think the traffic measures needed

> could be implemented to allow this to happen. It

> might mean the difference between life and death

> cutting out the ambulance playing piggy in the

> middle.

[The Nappy Lady]

Maybe they could change some of the extortiontaly overcharged Kings car park into a helipad instead?

(edited for spelling).

[thexwinglessxbird]

It's a shame they couldn't get around here when the LL stabbing incident took place. They took their time getting here...

[PeckhamRose]

There was also a discussion about the parking at the above mentioned open public meeting. If everyone wrote to Lambeth Council's Planning Department demanding they give consideration to a multi storey car park for the hospital it might listen, and also then they could indeed have a helipad and a ramp direct to A&E! At the moment there are plans for the helipad to be built on another building I think.

[Domitianus]

Bellerophon Wrote:

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> PeckhamRose, I too have spoken informally to KCH

> staff who inform me that they are fast becoming a

> centre of excellence in the treatment of gunshot

> wounds, to rival those of BCH and Musgrave Park at

> the height of the troubles in NI

>

> At the same time impressive, yet deeply depressing

let us not forget Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital as well as Belfast City Hospital and Musgrave Park - equally a centre of excellence in trauma care due to experience gained during the Troubles. Was also the hospital that invented the heart defibrilator which has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives world wide.

[thexwinglessxbird]

Hearing the helicopter at this very moment. It's so frustrating - nobody knows why it's circling this area? It's been like this for weeks...

[clyed]

They are out looking for attic Cannabis farms, it's the heat from the ultra violet lamps, the nightvision camera makes it easy to spot the brightest house in the street with a heat signature of the Bahamas.

[Domitianus]

edited due to misunderstanding

[ianr]

It's an annual experiment to monitor EDF members' reactions. http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,168178,168234

[i*Rate]

Well done ianr, how did you know?

[Domitianus]

clyed Wrote:

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> They are out looking for attic Cannabis farms,

> it's the heat from the ultra violet lamps, the

> nightvision camera makes it easy to spot the

> brightest house in the street with a heat

> signature of the Bahamas.

So we can expect a major drug squad raid on Foxtons then?