“Even the surgeons in the hospital have said I should be dead, I should have died on that tarmac. So I owe my life to the air ambulance.”
Rob Hope
Brampton
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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Woman who fell off mountain bike thanks GNAAS for coming to her aid
Hayley Crooks, 29, from Middlesbrough was riding the red trail in Whinlatter Forest, Keswick, with her then-fiancé Chris Crooks, when she fell on 8 July 2016. Mr Crooks said: “It’s our favourite trail and I often ride first and get a video of Hayley coming down, but Hayley decided to go first to get a … Continued
Motorcyclist airlifted twice by GNAAS visits the charity’s air base
Ronnie Murray, a 54-year-old coach driver from Darlington, was travelling through Croft-on-Tees to head to work when he came off his motorbike on 5 August 2018. He said: “It is all a blur, I can’t remember anything. I believe I took a tumble but there were no other cars involved. A driver stopped and phoned … Continued
Adult airlifted after fall in Millom
Today we were activated at 12.22pm to reports of an adult who had fallen in Millom. Our GNAAS paramedic and doctor team arrived on scene at 12.43pm and assessed and treated a patient. At 1.20pm we airlifted the patient to Royal Preston Hospital with a flight time of 19 minutes. Our aircraft was then refuelled … Continued
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