Aggregated survey results showing variability in data collection, availability, capability and utilisation of pre-hospital critical care resources. No hospital with a medical team able to provide 24/7 critical care reported deployment four or more times a month. Note that London HEMS, an air ambulance service able to provide 24/7 critical care, based at the Royal London Hospital, is recorded as operating independently from the emergency department
| NHS Ambulance service survey | BASICS survey | Air ambulance survey | Hospital emergency department survey | |||||||||
| Ambulance service NHS trust | Doctors available (n) | Doctors requested (incidents) | Doctors attended (incidents) | BASICS affiliated schemes (n) | Doctors in schemes (n) | Critical care capable (% of doctors) | Air ambulance operations (n) | Estimated doctor availability (days/ week) | Pre-hospital team 24/7 (number of departments) | Critical care capability (number of departments) | ||
| 2007 | 2008 | 2007 | 2008 | |||||||||
| South Western | Not known | 380 | 430 | 309 | 369 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| South Central | Not known | – | – | 770 | 966 | 4 | 27 | 81 | 2 | 2–3 | 5 | 1 |
| South East Coast | Not known | – | – | 672 | 785 | 1 | 16 | 19 | 2 | 7 | 2 | 0 |
| London | Not known | – | – | – | – | 1 | 12 | 100 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Wales | Not known | – | – | – | – | 2 | 10 | 50 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 1 |
| Great Western | Not known | 156 | 113 | 118 | 71 | 3 | 18 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| West Midlands | Not known | 2401 | 2869 | 1423 | 1693 | 4 | 46 | 61 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| East Midlands | Not known | – | – | 1122 | 1324 | 3 | 25 | 48 | 3 | 6–7 | 12 | 0 |
| East of England | Not known | – | – | – | – | 5 | 72 | 51 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 0 |
| North West | 42 | 630 | 497 | 437 | 335 | 4 | 27 | 30 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 1 |
| North East | 1 | – | – | 6 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| Yorkshire | 38 | 153 | 742 | 151 | 606 | 1 | 45 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| Northern Ireland | Not known | – | – | – | – | 1 | 9 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 |