Flight Path to Trust: Guidance for Sustainable & Secure Adoption for the Public Sector
Building on successful trials like CAELUS and SATE, Flight Path to Trust aims to solidify the evidence base for drone adoption within the public sector. Led by NHS Grampian, the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), and HITRANS, the project focuses on improving medical transport and emergency care connectivity in remote and rural areas. By fostering "customer readiness" and cross-sector collaboration, the initiative ensures that healthcare systems maintain the strategic buy-in necessary to integrate these technologies. Ultimately, the project seeks to transform service resilience and patient outcomes while establishing a foundation of public confidence through shared experiential learning.
The Flight Path to Trust project is the next step in building the evidence base to support the adoption of drone technology. Previous projects such as CAELUS and SATE have successfully demonstrated the potential benefits of drone technology, most notably improved connectivity and quicker access to services. For the NHS and Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS), drones offer a promising solution by enabling faster and more flexible transport options for emergency care and medical supplies particularly in more remote and rural areas.
The Flight Path to Trust Project Team comprises of NHS Grampian, SAS and HITRANS who will work together to deliver the short-term outcomes of the project: –
- Development of customer readiness, with increased understanding of the requirements that need to be in place as part of successful adoption activity in the future;
- Signalling to NHS systems that activity in this area is continuing, therefore maintaining executive buy-in and strategic alignment to national, regional and local healthcare priorities, and
- Collaboration of NHS with other public sector and commercial entities.
In the longer term the expected outcomes of the project will include: –
- NHS/SAS systems in Scotland are positioned to benefit from early adoption of this technology and materialise the positive impact on service delivery, service resilience and patients benefits, and
- shared experiential learning across the public sector.
Ultimately, the Flight Path to Trust project aims to build public confidence in drone technology by contributing to the evidence base to support the adoption of this technology.
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