Bradley

Bradley is an English surname derived from a place name meaning "broad wood" or "broad clearing" in Old English.

Like many English surnames Bradley can also be used as a given name and as such has become popular.

It is also an Anglicisation of the Irish Gaelic name O’Brolachán (also O’Brallaghan) from County Tyrone in Ireland. The family moved and spread to counties Londonderry, Donegal and Cork, and England.

Surname

Bradley is the surname of the following notable people:

Wiltshire Air Ambulance

Wiltshire Air Ambulance is an essential helicopter emergency medical service (HEMS), primarily for the people of Wiltshire and adjacent counties and those passing through the county.

It is run by Wiltshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust, a registered charity (1).

History

The service was formed on March 15, 1990 as a joint venture between Wiltshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust and Wiltshire Constabulary using a joint helicopter, based at Police Headquarters in Devizes.

The Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal, a registered charity, was set up to raise funds for Wiltshire Air Ambulance. It was run by Wiltshire Ambulance Service followed by Great Western Ambulance Service (GWAS). GWAS was the sole trustee of the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Appeal.

In October 2011 the Wiltshire Air Ambulance Charitable Trust (WAACT) was formed to run Wiltshire Air Ambulance (2). The new charity was independent of the ambulance service. The charity paid about a third of the cost of the joint helicopter with Wiltshire Police paying the remaining two thirds. For the charity, this amounted to about £700,000 a year.

Maiden Bradley

Coordinates: 51°08′56″N 2°17′06″W / 51.149°N 2.285°W / 51.149; -2.285

Maiden Bradley is a village in southwest Wiltshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) southwest of Warminster and bordering the county of Somerset. The B3092 road between Frome and Mere forms the village street. Bradley House, the seat of the Duke of Somerset, is adjacent to the village.

Maiden Bradley is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Maiden Bradley with Yarnfield. The parish is in the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and was one of the clearings in the former Selwood Forest. In the northwest the parish includes the hamlet of Gare Hill, although most dwellings there are in Trudoxhill parish, Somerset.

Demography

History

Early History

The village takes its name from the leper hospital for maidens founded in the 12th century. Bradley means a wide clearing or wood; Brad = Broad (OE) & Ley = clearing (OE). 1½ miles southwest of the village is the deserted medieval village, now farming hamlet, of Yarnfield. Formerly in the county of Somerset, Yarnfield was transferred to Wiltshire in 1895.

Air medical services

Air medical services is a comprehensive term covering the use of air transportation, airplane or helicopter, to move patients to and from healthcare facilities and accident scenes. Personnel provide comprehensive prehospital and emergency and critical care to all types of patients during aeromedical evacuation or rescue operations aboard helicopter and propeller aircraft or jet aircraft.

The use of air transport of patients dates to World War I, but its role was expanded dramatically during the Korean and Vietnam conflicts. Helicopters are used to transport patients between hospitals and from trauma scenes; fixed-wing aircraft are used for long-distance transports.

Advantages

The advantages of medical transport by helicopter may include providing a higher level of care at the scene of trauma and improving access to trauma centers. Helicopter-based emergency medical service (EMS) also provides critical care capabilities during interfacility transport from community hospitals to trauma centers.

Bradley House

Bradley House or variants thereof may refer to:

In England

In the United States

See also