Children's Wales Air Ambulance touches down in Cardiff

The Wales Air Ambulance Charity has permanently relocated its paediatric and neonatal operation to a new base in the Welsh capital. Children's Wales Air Ambulance is a specialist division of Wales Air Ambulance, which is dedicated to the specialist care needed to transfer vulnerable paediatric and neonatal patients to hospitals across Wales and further afield. It had been based at Wales Air Ambulance's headquarters in Dafen, Llanelli, while the crews prepared a new, permanent base at Cardiff City Heliport.

The helicopter charity launched a seven-day transfer service with its fourth aircraft earlier this year, making it the largest air ambulance operation in the UK. The new operation is claimed to be the most advanced air ambulance service for paediatric and neonatal transfers in the UK, with a pioneering flight incubator system and Britain's only dedicated helicopter transfer practitioners (HTPs).