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.
1,262
callouts in 2020
115,917
donations in 2020
£5.3m
cost of the service in 2020
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Simulation training at GNAAS
This involves creating realistic scenarios that the team may come across when they are activated to an incident, so they’ll know what to do if they end up facing a similar situation in real life. Here Jamie Walsh, assistant director – training, explains the training in more detail: “We do a simulation on base every … Continued
Charity Skydive
The region’s air ambulance has reported a surge in weekend call-outs
The same two weekends last year – when COVID restrictions remained heightened – saw the charity’s teams respond to 17 incidents. Andy Mawson, director of operations at GNAAS, said: “Demand is much higher than last year, and at times has been higher than ever before. “The problem is that although demand is now back to … Continued
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