HEMS Services (Helicopter Emergency Medical Services)

Erasmus MC, VUMC and UMC St. Radboud

To provide HEMS services as described in the tender documents and its associated appendices.
Four trauma centres in the Netherlands were given an instruction by the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport to keep a Mobile Medical Team (MMT) ready 24 hours a day. The MMT is deployed in the event of serious accidents and incidents when called out by the ambulance services’ alarm centre. A HEMS (Helicopter Emergency Medical Service) helicopter is available for the purpose, plus a road vehicle for when the weather is bad or other specific situations. The first trauma centre to have an MMT helicopter was the VU university medical center (1995), followed by the Erasmus MC (1997), UMC St Radboud (2001) and UMC Groningen (2001).
The HEMS helicopter has to take an MMT and the equipment it needs to the location of the incident as quickly as possible. In a number of cases (2-12 %, depending on the trauma region), the patient is currently transported from the incident location to a hospital by helicopter. Patients may be transported by helicopter when this is beneficial to the patient’s health and/or when transport by ambulance is less suitable. This is the case when a patient in a critical situation has to be transported over greater distances or when transport by ambulance is impossible due to terrain conditions.
The contract with the current provider will terminate at the end of 2011. Three of the four trauma centres – namely VUmc in Amsterdam, Erasmus MC in Rotterdam and UMC St Radboud in Nijmegen – have decided to issue a joint tender for the transport of an MMT and/or patients by helicopter. The principle here is that one provider or a combination of providers should be found, with a single party bearing the final responsibility for the three trauma centres.

De termijn voor de ontvangst van de offertes was 2011-04-28. De aanbesteding werd gepubliceerd op 2011-02-28.

• • Erasmus MC, VUMC and UMC St. Radboud

• • Helicopters en vliegtuigen › Helikopters
• • Verhuur van luchtvaartuigen met bemanning › Verhuur van helikopters met bemanning
• • Luchtvaart- en aanverwante diensten › Luchtreddingsdiensten