Eight months with London's Air Ambulance

London's Air Ambulance takes off from a helipad atop Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where the service is based
Photograph: David Levene

The doctors, paramedics and fire crew of London's Air Ambulance transfer a patient to the resuscitation room inside the hosiptal
Photograph: David Levene

Maria Smith attends a stab victim being flown from Ilford, east London, to the Royal London Hospital
Photograph: David Levene

Children in a park in south London wave at the helicopter as it takes off from an incident nearby
Photograph: David Levene

London's Air Ambulance doctor Matt Gunning inspects his kit after returning from an incident
Photograph: David Levene

Doctors, paramedics and ambulance crews treat a boy in the road after he was knocked over in a hit-and-run incident in south London
Photograph: David Levene

London's Air Ambulance team and fire crews respond to an accident involving a car and a double-decker bus
Photograph: David Levene

London's Air Ambulance team and fire crews at a road accident involving a car and a double-decker bus
Photograph: David Levene

London's Air Ambulance doctor Maria Smith attends to a woman trapped under the train at Plaistow Underground station.
Photograph: David Levene

London's Air Ambulance doctor Maria Smith inspects the tracks at Plaistow Underground station where a woman has been hit by a train
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A fireman's hat lays on the ground as fire crews hose down the helipad
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Dr Misha Heron prepares medical kits and treatment drugs before his night shift in an Air Ambulance rapid-response vehicle. The helicopter only flies during daylight hours so at night the doctors and paramedics use rapid-response vehicles to reach the incidents
Photograph: David Levene

The kitchen inside the crew room up on the helipad of the London's Air Ambulance base
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The log board detailing recent incidents the teams at London's Air Ambulance responded to
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A stab victim flown from Ilford by London's Air Ambulance is treated by medical staff
Photograph: David Levene

An Air Ambulance fire crew member returns to the office at the end of the day
Photograph: David Levene