Requests for UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency Helicopter Airlifts

Original Request

1) Since March 2022, please list the date/time of every occurrence whereby the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been requested to land at Nobles Hospital Helipad and airlift a critically ill patient from Nobles Hospital to a UK hospital. 2) For each year since 2022 (including 2025 so far), please list costs incurred with these airlifts as presumably UKMGA bill the IOM Govt for them. 3) Please confirm which department/budget pays for this service - both initially, and if it is then recharged to a different department - i.e. paid for by DoI and then recharged to ManxCare. Thank you.

Data Tables (3)

Full Response Text

Department of Infrastructure Sea Terminal Building, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 2RF

Contact: FOI Response Team Telephone: (01624) 686785 Email: dpo-doi@gov.im

Our ref: 4914037 16 September 2025

Dear ###

We write further to your request, received 5 September 2025, which states:

"1) Since March 2022, please list the date/time of every occurrence whereby the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency has been requested to land at Nobles Hospital Helipad and airlift a critically ill patient from Nobles Hospital to a UK hospital.

2) For each year since 2022 (including 2025 so far), please list costs incurred with these airlifts as presumably UKMGA bill the IOM Govt for them.

3) Please confirm which department/budget pays for this service - both initially, and if it is then recharged to a different department - i.e. paid for by DoI and then recharged to ManxCare.

Thank you." While our aim is to provide information whenever possible, in this instance the public authority does not hold or cannot, after taking reasonable steps to do so, find some of the information that you have requested.
I have detailed below the answers to your questions:

1. The Department of Infrastructure (DOI) does not hold clinical information regarding the medical condition of patients involved in these airlifts and therefore cannot confirm whether they were critically ill. DOI staff are not qualified medical professionals and do not have access to clinical assessments. However, the DOI can confirm that between March 2022 and September 2025, the UK Maritime and Coastguard Agency was requested to land at the Nobles Hospital Helipad to facilitate the transfer of patients from Nobles Hospital to hospitals in the United Kingdom. A list of the relevant dates and times is provided below.

Date
Time 30/09/2022 05:49 04/10/2022 03:25 16/11/2022 20:10 12/12/2022 14:23 09/02/2023 21:20

12/02/2023 23:38 29/04/2023 21:56 10/05/2023 10:25 15/05/2023 20:41 17/06/2023 22:49 28/06/2023 18:24 21/07/2023 22:18 21/08/2023 22:56 23/10/2023
23:58 01/11/2023 23:35 17/11/2023 01:47 20/11/2023
23:52 23/11/2023
03:20 24/11/2023 21:44 22/01/2024
01:49 17/02/2024
02:27 25/02/2024
22:24 28/02/2024 21:57 07/03/2024
22:02 17/03/2024 10:32 11/04/2024
21:59 03/05/2024
01:35 28/05/2024
15:14 06/06/2024
22:20 22/06/2024
00:15 22/06/2024
02:33 28/06/2024
01:54 08/07/2024
21:11 10/07/2024
01:28 20/08/2024
22:07 12/09/2024
21:42 06/10/2024
00:46 08/12/2024
00:18 21/12/2024
22:19 27/12/2024
16:38 09/02/2025
02:00 27/03/2025
19:02 01/05/2025
02:42 02/05/2025
23:50 18/05/2025
21:47 19/05/2025
11:34 22/05/2025
23:31 07/06/2025
00:41 23/06/2025
01:48 01/07/2025
23:12 07/07/2025
23:15 11/07/2025
22:20 17/08/2025
03:03 19/08/2025
01:44

19/08/2025
20:12 19/08/2025
22:42 04/09/2025
19:12 07/09/2025
22:38

1. The DOI does not hold information regarding the costs incurred for medical airlifts. These costs are not paid by the DOI, they are managed and paid by Manx Care.

2. Manx Care pays for this service.

Please quote the reference number 4914037 in any future communications.

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I will now close your request as of this date. Yours sincerely