Traffic is the problem, says Alex Landowski. The co-founder and managing director of Medical Logistics isn’t just talking about the day-to-day frustrations of getting across town by car for anything as routine as a business meeting. He’s discussing the main obstacle to the reliable delivery of urgent medical supplies such as blood. You can dispatch couriers on bicycles and motorbikes – and Landowski has plenty of first-hand experience of this as a former rider – but increasingly, as London’s arterial routes become ever more congealed with road vehicles, his thoughts have turned to harnessing uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone technology. Medical Logistics has been instrumental in the first UAV flight-corridor trial in the UK for delivering time-critical medical cargo to an NHS hospital.
Medical Logistics works with what Landowski terms ‘non-blue-light’ deliveries such as blood samples for scientific analysis in laboratories, X-rays, surgical equipment...