Medical repatriation companies in the UK
List of medical repatriation companies for British nationals who are seriously ill or injured abroad and need medical evacuation to the UK.
- From:
- Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
- Published
- 10 April 2018
- Last updated
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This list is provided for British nationals for information only. The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) does not recommend or endorse any company as to their suitability or competence. It is your responsibility to contact the companies to confirm that they are affiliated with all appropriate regulatory bodies, and that you carry out your own enquiries and due diligence checks to ensure they are suitable for your particular requirements.
Some may offer their services voluntarily on a ‘pro bono’ basis – check first if they are able to offer this. Also check they provide translation services for the country the repatriation is from, if this is needed.
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List of companies
Company | UK telephone | Repatriations from | Specialist services |
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+44 (0) 333 772 2524 | Worldwide | Cost effective Air Ambulance. Commercial repatriation, Specialist repatriation road ambulances. | |
112 Ambulance Repatriation | 01782 776110 | Worldwide | Chartered aircraft, air ambulances, road ambulances, management of patients with all illness and disabilities, 4x4 ambulances and specialist paramedics for all journeys. |
1 Air Assist | +44 (0)330 |
Worldwide | Assisting with all injuries and illness, mental health patients, care home residents, larger patient, palliative care, dealing with both seated and stretcher patients on commercial flights. |
1 Call Medical Assist | +44 (0)30 0302 1371 | Worldwide | Mental health crisis, care home residents, larger patient, palliative care, infectious disease, seated and stretcher commercial flights, specialist equipment and drugs, advanced life support and oxygen, security escorts, certified nurses, doctors and paramedics. |
247 Aviation Air Ambulance Service | +44 (0)28 9344 5956 | Worldwide | Jet aircraft ambulance operator, specialist services includes, but is not limited to, major trauma, spinal injuries, burns patients, obstetric (pregnancy and post-natal) care, psychiatry, coronary (heart) care, palliative (end of life) care, and bespoke management of passengers with pre-existing disabilities and special needs. |
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+44(0)3443100150 | Worldwide excluding war zones | Worldwide medical repatriation and Commercial airline medical escort services. CQC registered UK and European ambulance services. All injuries and illnesses. Healthcare Professional led offering tailored services. | |
AD Medical Air Assist | +44 (0)33 3015 0226 | Worldwide excluding war |
Global |
Advance Medical Transport Services Ltd | +44 (0)1634 |
Europe | Cardiac, bariatric, oxygen, entonox, all frontline medication and equipment for paramedic-required journeys. |
Aeromed Transfer and Teach | +44 (0)20 3633 8483 | Worldwide |
Stretcher and seated repatriation by commercial airline, specialist in-flight medical equipment and escorts. |
Air |
+44 (0)1784 |
Worldwide | With |
Air Land & Sea Repatriation Service | +44 (0)333 2102 999 | Worldwide | Specially fitted ground and air ambulances with full critical care medical fit. |
Airmedic |
+44 (0) 333 772 |
Worldwide |
Leading |
Alliance |
+44 (0) |
Europe |
Bariatric, |
Alphamed Scotland | +44 (0)131 460 3555 | Worldwide | Worldwide physician-led medical repatriation and airline medical escort services and medical stretcher capability. Adult, paediatric and neonatal intensive care, high dependency and critical care capability. All specialist equipment and medicines required for the journey. Qualified doctors, nurses and paramedics. Assisting with all injuries and illness including mental health, learning disabilities, trauma, infectious diseases, palliative care, dementia and frailty. |
+44 (0)800 695 1111 | Europe |
ALS Emergency Ambulances crewed by fully qualified and insured paramedics and emergency medical technicians and a BLS service. | |
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+44 (0)7950 000 |
Worldwide |
Bariatric for overweight patients. | |
BM Ambulance Service | +44 (0)1233 273 999 | Worldwide |
Bariatric, dementia, stroke, mental health. |
Capital Air Ambulance | +44 (0)117 |
Worldwide | Full adult, |
Catapult Services Ltd | +44 (0)7410 048 |
Worldwide, excluding war zones | Medical repatriation services offered by a fully governed Care Quality Commission (CQC) regulated provider, including critical/intensive care, high dependency, long-distance blue light transfers with qualified clinicians. Paramedic led state-of-the-art advanced life support equipped ambulances, with Schillers for electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring, Oxygen, Entonox, suction and the full range of drugs. |
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+44 (0)1444 |
Worldwide | UK based specialists in the medical transporting of sick and injured patients. | |
Codeblue Medical | +44 (0)20 3835 8486 | Europe | International road based and escorted commercial air repatriations with bariatric and critical care capabilities. Staffed by paramedics, nurses and doctors. Also available to assist aeromedical organisations with road ambulance provisions from UK and Irish ports and airports. |
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+44 (0)1323 846 399 | Worldwide | Pressure-relieving mattress for ground repatriation, full range of medicines, advanced life support and oxygen, 4x4 vehicles. | |
Elroy Airmed Ltd | +44 (0)117 471 5891 | Worldwide | Consultant doctor-led retrieval, experienced in difficult-to-access areas and able to embed security teams. Transfer of patients aged 3 and over, including ventilated patients on full organ support. ECMO transfers on request with UK ECMO consultants. Expertise in higher acuity and complex cases including long-range commercial stretchers and air ambulance. |
EMS Ambulance Service | +44 (0)15 3567 0648 | Worldwide | Involved in the UK leg of overseas repatriations, ambulances are forward-facing stretchers, fully-equipped advanced life support land ambulance transport across Northern England and Scotland. |
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+44 (0)774 |
Worldwide, excluding war zones | Advanced life support, stretcher cases, portable oxygen concentrators. | |
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+44 (0)1256 533 021 | Europe | Ambulance and consultancy services. | |
Healix International | +44 (0)20 8481 7735 | Worldwide | Support for all types of specialist cases. |
Hearts First Ambulance Service Ltd | +44 (0)1923 894 212 | Worldwide | Bariatric/ITU/HDU/paediatric ambulance transfers, NHS and private hospital bed admissions services, medical escort repatriation services on commercial flights, specialising in long-distance road repatriations in bespoke custom-built ambulances. |
IAS Medical | +44 (0)800 7999 900 | Worldwide | Services and specialist equipment set up for adults, paediatric and neo-natal medical transfers including intensive care patients. |
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+44 (0) 113 450 5335 | Worldwide | High dependency, intensive care, hostile environments, repatriation by land and air, bariatric, patients with complex needs. | |
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+44 (0)208 706 0810 | Worldwide |
Capability | |
Medical Repatriations | +44 (0)7710 782 789 | Worldwide | Access to most equipment including seated/stretcher repatriation doctor/nurse escorts, oxygen in-flight equipment. |
Medimove |
+44(0)1227 |
Europe |
Bariatric |
MED-PTS Ambulance Services | +44 (0)333 301 9991 | Worldwide | Access to medical equipment and vehicles and bariatric and high dependency. |
MET Medical Ltd | +44 (0)203 627 9042 | Worldwide | Specialist experience in relation to highly-contaminated or infectious patients and patients contaminated with chemical or nuclear material and bariatric transfers. |
Mid |
+44 (0)1597 503 903 |
Europe |
We |
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+44 (0)7855 761 653 | Worldwide | Bariatric/ITU/HDU/paediatric ambulance transfers, NHS and private hospital bed admissions services, medical escort repatriation services on commercial flights, specialising in long-distance road repatriations in bespoke custom-built ambulances. | |
Repatriation Medical Services Ltd | + 44 (0)330 818 9715 | Worldwide | A highly experienced team able to arrange Commercial flight medical escorts, commercial stretchers, Air ambulances, road ambulances in the UK and abroad, along with UK bed admission. |
SkyCare Repatriations |
+44 (0)203 150 3999 | Worldwide | Air |
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+44 (0)143 855 3072 | Worldwide | Fully-equipped ambulances and staff for critical care, intensive care, high dependency, long distance and emergency blue light transfers. | |
UCS Medical | 0330 223 6702 | Worldwide | Bariatric/ITU/HDU/paediatric ambulance transfers, NHS and private hospital bed admissions services, medical escort repatriation services on commercial flights, specialising in paramedic led, long-distance road repatriations in bespoke ambulances. Mental health secure transfers and other associated mental health services. |
V Care 24 | +44 (0)800 599 9161 | Worldwide | Specialising in the transportation of mental health patients and minor medical health-related issues. |
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+44 (0)203 971 1001 | Worldwide | Commercial stretcher flight |
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Updates to this page
Published 10 April 2018Last updated 3
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A number of companies have been removed from the list. Details for some of the companies have been updated.
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Added 2 companies to the list: Air Ambulance Medical Services (Heathrow) Ltd and Halo Medical Group. Removed 4 companies: Essex Ambulance Service Ltd, Evolvo Medica Ltd, Medical and Rescue and RAMSS.
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Added 3 new service providers: Alliance Ambulance Services, Catapult Services Ltd and Elroy Airmed Ltd.
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Added two new service providers: Alphamed Scotland and Lambda Medical Ltd.
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Added new service provider - Wealden Ambulance Services.
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Lia's Wings added to list.
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Added 000 Air and Land Ambulance Repatriation Services and Repatriation Medical Services Ltd to the list.
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Added Medi 4 Ambulance Services to list.
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Added new medical repatriation company: MyMedFlight.
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Added new medical repatriation company: Western Medical Services
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Airmedic International and LS Medical have been added to the list.
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SkyCare Repatriations has been added to the list.
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Patient Focused Ambulance and CLCA Aeromed added to list.
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Added new service providers. Removed St John Ambulance.
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Updated AB Medical services' contact number; added new service providers: Air Land & Sea repatriation service, UCS Medical and Weston Aviation.
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Added new service provider: Medicore Ambulance Service Ltd
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Updated details for AFJ Limited.
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Airmedic International Ltd removed from list
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Update history
2025-03-03 16:21
A number of companies have been removed from the list. Details for some of the companies have been updated.
2025-01-21 11:43
Added 2 companies to the list: Air Ambulance Medical Services (Heathrow) Ltd and Halo Medical Group. Removed 4 companies: Essex Ambulance Service Ltd, Evolvo Medica Ltd, Medical and Rescue and RAMSS.
2025-01-02 13:52
Added 3 new service providers: Alliance Ambulance Services, Catapult Services Ltd and Elroy Airmed Ltd.
2024-10-15 10:24
Added two new service providers: Alphamed Scotland and Lambda Medical Ltd.
2024-07-15 12:32
Added new service provider – Wealden Ambulance Services.
2024-06-06 13:44
Lia’s Wings added to list.
2024-05-02 12:24
Added 000 Air and Land Ambulance Repatriation Services and Repatriation Medical Services Ltd to the list.
2024-04-11 15:24
Added Medi 4 Ambulance Services to list.
2024-04-11 10:35
Added new medical repatriation company: MyMedFlight.
2024-03-18 11:13
Added new medical repatriation company: Western Medical Services
2024-03-04 16:50
Airmedic International and LS Medical have been added to the list.
2023-12-20 13:42
SkyCare Repatriations has been added to the list.
2023-11-29 10:25
Patient Focused Ambulance and CLCA Aeromed added to list.
2023-11-03 14:26
Added new service providers. Removed St John Ambulance.
2023-10-30 11:09
Updated AB Medical services’ contact number; added new service providers: Air Land & Sea repatriation service, UCS Medical and Weston Aviation.
2023-07-18 15:07
Airmedic International Ltd removed from list