GNAAS saved my life and I’m very grateful for their help. My mum, dad, and kids are also very grateful.
Samantha Sugden
Penrith
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) brings pioneering pre-hospital care to the scene, rescuing hundreds of severely injured or ill patients every year. We are not NHS-funded.
1,173
callouts in 2018
33,414
donors in 2018
£5.1m
cost of the service in 2018
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Latest from GNAAS
Italians highlight benefits of ‘blood on board’ during conference
Earlier this year we welcomed two Italian clinicians who work in pre-hospital care to our base, so they could find out how GNAAS uses blood products in the pre-hospital environment. Simone Celi, an advanced nurse practitioner, and Christian Salaroli, an anaesthetist, work for the Regional Emergency-Urgency Agency (AREU) in the Lombardy region in Northern Italy. … Continued
Young patient gives new GNAAS hangar the seal of approval
The Maher family of Wallsend visited our new facility at Urlay Nook, Eaglescliffe, where the structure of the hangar has just been finished. Seven-year-old Alannah Maher was airlifted last year after she was struck in the face by a heavy-duty chain in an accident on her great uncle’s farm in Brough, Cumbria. The incident left her … Continued
Our thanks to Cumbria this National Air Ambulance Week
We are marking National Air Ambulance Week by taking to the phones, writing postcards and sending emails to supporters for enabling our life-saving work in the county. Figures released to coincide with the annual awareness week show that our crew responded to 129 reports of road traffic incident and 65 of falls in the county. … Continued
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