Fears have been expressed that a life-saving charity could lose vital funding to a rival whose goal it claims is “not needed and unachievable.”
Helena Holt, the chief executive of the Devon Air Ambulance Trust has hit out at the Children’s Air Ambulance Trust, disputing many of its claims and its financial capabilities.
She sparked a row after publishing a statement on the Devon Air Ambulance website outlining concerns about TCAAT’s campaign to provide a transport service for children needing treatment at specialist hospitals throughout the UK.
She argued that the service being proposed was unrealistic and not financially viable. But Nicola Howkins of the TCAAT hit back, saying what it proposes was very different to the regional air ambulances, vowing it would take to the air in 2010.
