Whirlybird Walkies
Grab your leads, it’s time to go Whirlybird Walkin’. Take on one of three distances with your four-legged friend this May!
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.
2,083
Call-outs in 2024
£25,200
Daily operating cost
£9.3m
Annual cost of the service
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During this challenging time for the charity, support for our life-saving service is as crucial as ever. With your support, we fly on.
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Latest from GNAAS
Man involved in brewery explosion reunites with doctor who came to his rescue
Leigh Taylor was working at a brewery in Workington when he was engulfed by a fireball and badly burned in a violent blast. Recalling the incident, he said: “I remember being blown across the room and looking at it in disbelief. My ears were ringing, and smoke was billowing, and then I just crawled out … Continued
A day in the life of a GNAAS dispatcher
Here he gives us a behind-the-scenes look at what a typical day as a GNAAS dispatcher looks like… Being a dispatcher at GNAAS is a crucial role—it’s all about keeping a close eye on emergency calls and making those all-important decisions about where we go and who needs us the most. 6 am Rise and … Continued
GNAAS patient meets the blood donor who helped save her life after crash
Ruth Cork, 38, from Shrewsbury, was riding her motorbike on the A65 near Kirkby Lonsdale, when she collided with a car in August 2022. Her injuries included a broken femur, sacrum, jaw, cheekbone, skull, pelvis, and displaced and crushed vertebrae. She had serious internal bleeding, a bleed under her chin, a sub arachnoid haemorrhage (a … Continued
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