The aim is to cut costs, while improving service to hundreds of thousands of patients.
Except in this case, the package isblood samples, surgical equipment or chemotherapy drugs.
Healthcare should benefit from on-demand delivery, much like consumers now do in their personal lives.
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Ziplines fixed-wing drones can travel up to 210km and parachute packages onto hospital landing zones.
This region is home to over 500,000 people.
The hub will stock a variety of medical products that the NHS can order through Apians platform.
Zipline will then quickly dispatch the products to one of 30 general practitioners and hospitals across the region.
The partners say the system wont just be quicker, but more sustainable too.
Today 3,000 pound gas vehicles driven by humans are used to deliver three-pound packages billions of times per year.
Its expensive, slow and bad for the environment, said Ziplines CEO Keller Rinaudo Cliffton.
Story bySion Geschwindt
Sion is a freelance science and technology reporter, specialising in climate and energy.
