Eight months with London's Air Ambulance

London's Air Ambulance takes off from a helipad atop Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel where the service is based Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk The doctors, paramedics and fire crew of London's Air Ambulance transfer a patient to the resuscitation room inside the hosiptal Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk Maria Smith attends a stab victim being flown from Ilford, east London, to the Royal London Hospital Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk Children in a park in south London wave at the helicopter as it takes off from an incident nearby Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk London's Air Ambulance doctor Matt Gunning inspects his kit after returning from an incident Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk Doctors, paramedics and ambulance crews treat a boy in the road after he was knocked over in a hit-and-run incident in south London Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk London's Air Ambulance team and fire crews respond to an accident involving a car and a double-decker bus Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk London's Air Ambulance team and fire crews at a road accident involving a car and a double-decker bus Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk London's Air Ambulance doctor Maria Smith attends to a woman trapped under the train at Plaistow Underground station. Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk London's Air Ambulance doctor Maria Smith inspects the tracks at Plaistow Underground station where a woman has been hit by a train Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk A fireman's hat lays on the ground as fire crews hose down the helipad Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk Dr Misha Heron prepares medical kits and treatment drugs before his night shift in an Air Ambulance rapid-response vehicle. The helicopter only flies during daylight hours so at night the doctors and paramedics use rapid-response vehicles to reach the incidents Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk The kitchen inside the crew room up on the helipad of the London's Air Ambulance base Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk The log board detailing recent incidents the teams at London's Air Ambulance responded to Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk A stab victim flown from Ilford by London's Air Ambulance is treated by medical staff Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk An Air Ambulance fire crew member returns to the office at the end of the day Photograph: David Levene Photograph: guardian.co.uk