One of the jobs that we do from our station is inter-hospital transfers, this isn't unusual - most ambulance stations have to do their fair share of them. What is unusual for us (and our sister station) is that we have one of the shortest transfers possible. The map you can see is our local hospital, at one end of the red line I have expertly drawn is the entrance to the A&E department, at the other end is the 'Gateway surgical centre' (GSC) [ PDF ]. The GSC is where the planned surgical d