London’s Air Ambulance Consultant appointed Chairman of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

London’s Air Ambulance’s has today announced that their Research and Development Lead, Professor David Lockey, has taken up the position of Chairman of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Professor Lockey is the first member of London’s Air Ambulance to be appointed to this prestigious role.

He is currently a consultant in Intensive Care Medicine and Anaesthesia in Bristol and Clinical Director of Severn Major Trauma Network. He was a registrar at London's Air Ambulance in 1997 and 2000 and has been a consultant at the charity, which provides an advanced trauma team for the 10 million people who live and work in London, since 2001.

The Faculty of Pre-hospital Care at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh was set up around 30 years ago to improve standards in Pre-hospital Care and has run examinations since 1988. It is now the lead college for Pre-hospital training and oversees training, examinations and accreditation of doctors who want to achieve GMC sub-specialisation. It also runs two educational programmes (mountain medicine and remote offshore medicine) and is developing diplomas in urgent care, major incident management and retrieval / transfer medicine. The Faculty has also taken on a lead role in establishing multi professional roles for non-doctors.

Commenting on the announcement Professor David Lockey said;

'It is a great privilege to take on leadership of the faculty and build on the great work that has been done over recent years to bring pre-hospital care to such an exciting stage of development in the UK'

Charles Newitt, interim CEO of London's Air Ambulance, said:

“This is an exciting time for pre-hospital care, and our charity is recognised as world –leading in this field. It is a great honour to have a London’s Air Ambulance doctor leading the Faculty, which will only serve to further improve the care we can provide”