A night on the London booze bus – in pictures

Paramedic Antonia Gissing in the back of the booze bus Photograph: Lynn Hilton

The booze bus helps to take some of the pressure off other emergency services that otherwise would handle such callouts Photograph: Lynn Hilton

A young woman needs help after collapsing in a club Photograph: Lynn Hilton

Gissing takes a woman's blood pressure Photograph: Lynn Hilton

Community police officers escort a drunk man to the ambulance on Horse Guards Parade Photograph: Lynn Hilton

A regular on the booze bus kisses Gissing's hand Photograph: Lynn Hilton

A young woman is picked up from the floor at a tube station Photograph: Lynn Hilton

Paramedic Brian Hayes helps a reveller Photograph: Lynn Hilton

Another man receives attention Photograph: Lynn Hilton

A man is picked up from a pavement in Soho Photograph: Lynn Hilton

The destination for many of the bus's passengers is St Thomas's hospital Photograph: Lynn Hilton

Paramedics help a man into the booze bus Photograph: Lynn Hilton