'I broke every bone in my face - and survived' NHS reorganisations are not very popular - but Tom Locke probably owes his life to one.
The 41-year-old was inspecting pigeon nests on his roof at home in Hythe on the Kent coast last October when disaster struck.
He fell from his ladder on his balcony plummeting three storeys on to his patio below, breaking his leg, arm, wrist, shoulder and every bone in his face.
But rather than being taken to a local hospital he was ferried by air ambulance to London's King's College Hospital more than 60 miles away.
According to doctors who treated him, the decision saved his life. BBC News
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The 41-year-old was inspecting pigeon nests on his roof at home in Hythe on the Kent coast last October when disaster struck.
He fell from his ladder on his balcony plummeting three storeys on to his patio below, breaking his leg, arm, wrist, shoulder and every bone in his face.
But rather than being taken to a local hospital he was ferried by air ambulance to London's King's College Hospital more than 60 miles away.
According to doctors who treated him, the decision saved his life. BBC News
See also:
- Changing the System - Major Trauma Patients and Their Outcomes in the NHS (England) 2008–17 (open access) EClinicalMedicine
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