News
Thames Valley Air Ambulance CEO, Amanda McLean’s statement on the Forbury Gardens Incident
Thank you to everyone who has shared messages of support for our crew members who treated patients during the incident at Forbury Gardens, Reading on Saturday the 20th of June.
I too would like to share my heartfelt thanks to our crew members and recognise their dedication, professionalism and fortitude.
A week on, I attended the Reading Together vigil as a representative of Thames Valley Air Ambulance, where I lit a candle of remembrance in tribute to the victims of these tragic events.
The thoughts of everyone at Thames Valley Air Ambulance are with the family and friends of those who sadly lost their lives. We hope that we can speak for all our supporters and the wider community in expressing our condolences to all those affected.
I can confirm that two of our crews were in attendance, dispatched via helicopter and critical care response car.
As well as Thames Valley Police and South Central Ambulance Service, colleagues from both Hampshire and Isle of Wight Air Ambulance, and London Air Ambulance were also on scene.
We want to express our gratitude for their support, and we are glad that we were able to play our part in the response to this incident alongside the other emergency services present.
Upon joining Thames Valley Air Ambulance, our crew recognise that they are likely to face difficult and – at times – distressing scenes.
Our doctors and paramedics receive extensive training to prepare for the range of situations they may face, including the aftermath of violent attacks, and support for them is always on hand.
In moments of crisis, our doctors’ and paramedics’ situational awareness; ability to listen and communicate; and their calm, composed manner can be as critical as their pre-hospital emergency clinical training.
We stand ready, as we have for over two decades, to respond to the needs of our community and attend those most serious of incidents where we can add the greatest clinical value.
(With kind thanks and credits to ST Photos – Stewart Turkington for use of pictures)
05/07/2024
News
17/06/2024
News
09/05/2024
Crew
12/04/2024
News
07/03/2024
News
08/01/2024
Crew
Join the community by signing up and keep up to date with news and events.
The Thames Valley Air Ambulance website makes use of the following types of cookies:
Cookie | Duration | Description |
---|---|---|
salt_recent_events | 1 month | This cookie monitors which event pages the user has visited, in order to provide them a list of recently visited event pages. This cookie is only used to improve the user's experience of our website. |
salt_recent_post | 1 month | This cookie monitors which web stories the user has read, in order to provide them a list of recently read stories. This cookie is only used to improve the user's experience of our website. |
Cookie | Duration | Description |
---|---|---|
_ga | 2 years | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. |
_gat_gtag_UA_77930033_1 | 1 minute | This cookie is used by Google Tag Manager to store and track website conversions. |
_gid | 1 day | This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form. |
_hjAbsoluteSessionInProgress | 30 minutes | This cookie is used by Hotjar to detect the first pageview session of a user. This is a True/False flag set by the cookie. |
_hjFirstSeen | 30 minutes | This is set by Hotjar to identify a new user’s first session. It stores a true/false value, indicating whether this was the first time Hotjar saw this user. It is used by Recording filters to identify new user sessions. |
_hjid | 1 year | This cookie is set by Hotjar. This cookie is set when the customer first lands on a page with the Hotjar script. It is used to persist the random user ID, unique to that site on the browser. This ensures that behavior in subsequent visits to the same site will be attributed to the same user ID. |
_hjIncludedInPageviewSample | 30 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether a visitor is included in the data sampling defined by our site's pageview limit. |
_hjIncludedInSessionSample | 2 minutes | This cookie is set to let Hotjar know whether a visitor is included in the data sampling defined by the website's daily session limit. |
_hjTLDTest | session | This cookie is set by HotJar. When the Hotjar script executes they try to determine the most generic cookie path to use, instead of the page hostname. This is done so that cookies can be shared across subdomains (where applicable). To determine this, HotJar try to store the _hjTLDTest cookie for different URL substring alternatives until it fails. After this check, the cookie is removed. |
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE | 5 months 27 days | This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website. |
YSC | session | This cookies is set by Youtube and is used to track the views of embedded videos. |
Cookie | Duration | Description |
---|---|---|
_fbp | 3 months | This cookie is set by Facebook to deliver advertisement when they are on Facebook or a digital platform powered by Facebook advertising after visiting this website. |
fr | 3 months | The cookie is set by Facebook to show relevant advertisments to the users and measure and improve the advertisements. The cookie also tracks the behavior of the user across the web on sites that have Facebook pixel or Facebook social plugin. |
IDE | 1 year 24 days | Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile. |
test_cookie | 15 minutes | This cookie is set by doubleclick.net. The purpose of the cookie is to determine if the user's browser supports cookies. |