Our
Philosophy

EHAC offers the optimal environment for the formal and informal exchange of technical opinions and experiences of the European HEMS community. This leads to a standardization of practice across Europe for the benefit of patients.

Objectives

EHAC strives to create and promote a public perception in Europe to the effect that air rescue and air ambulance services are necessary and that they have certain requirements. EHAC represents the interests of its members with the European regulatory authorities. EHAC makes the expertise of its members available to the bodies involved in drawing up or reviewing regulatory acts (for instance the EU Commission, EASA, national civil aviation authorities). EHAC also pursues the uniform implementation of new regulations.

Vision

EHAC is devoted to further developing air rescue services and to maintaining high standards of service quality. The primary criteria include flight safety and medical efficacy. These are the main objectives governing EHAC’s key activities:

  • Optimization of crew training
  • Development of standards for training pilots, physicians, paramedics and HEMS crew members
  • Development of uniformed quality standards for HEMS helicopters, air ambulance planes and their medical and non-medical equipment
  • Support of research and result analysis
  • Introduction of new technologies
  • Expanding the scope of missions
  • Coordination and cooperation in major disasters

Strategy

EHAC has four working groups (Medical, Flight OPS and Flight Safety and ACRM) made up of the best experts from the individual member organizations. In general HEMS are strongly influenced and dependent on legal framework conditions of the respective countries. One of the main EHAC duties is therefore to work out and formulate common interests in order to be able to speak to and to negotiate successfully with the regulatory authorities.