| Thames Valley Air Ambulance | |
| Established: | 2011 |
| Status: | Registered charity |
| Headquarters: | Stokenchurch, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Staff: | 100 |
| Staff Year: | 2022 |
| Volunteers: | 145 |
| Volunteers Year: | 2022 |
| Revenue: | £13.9million |
| Revenue Year: | 2022 |
| Leader Title: | Royal patron |
| Leader Name: | Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh[1] |
The Thames Valley Air Ambulance (TVAA), previously the Thames Valley and Chiltern Air Ambulance, is an organisation providing emergency medical services through the provision of a helicopter-based air ambulance covering the counties of Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire in the South East England region.
The charity's helicopter, which is night-capable, is a Eurocopter EC135[2] operating between 7am and 2am.[3] It is based at RAF Benson roughly halfway between Oxford and Reading with two pilots and a medical team. It also operates five emergency response vehicles (ERV), which, like the helicopter, carries a doctor and paramedic.
In the year ending September 2020, TVAA's income was £13.9million, against expenditure of £14.9M, of which £9.7M was spent on operating the charitable emergency service.[4] In 2019, TVAA responded to 2,670 incidents.[5]
In 2018, the charity appeared on Channel 4's TV programme Emergency Helicopter Medics, which follows the crews responding and treating emergency patients.[6] Other air ambulances that featured in the show include Great North Air Ambulance and East Anglian Air Ambulance.