Here we reflect on some of the highlights of 2024: Record high call-outs in 2023 In January we received the news that 2023 was our busiest year on record. More than 2,100 incidents were responded to by our critical care team across the North East, Cumbria and the Isle of Man. This was due to … Continued
GNAAS is entirely charitably funded and needs to raise £9.3m a year to continue responding to incidents 365 days a year. Over the period of the Christmas holidays between 24 December and 1 January, the charity’s critical care team respond to an average of 38 incidents across the North East, Cumbria and the Isle of … Continued
As part of the study, Mark Wetherell, a Professor of Psychobiology at Northumbria University, worked with the Great North Air Ambulance Service to monitor and assess emergency workers during an intensive two-week-long pre-hospital emergency medicine training programme. They found significant differences in medics’ stress levels during the training programme when compared to their rest periods. Participants … Continued
Graeme Jerdan, 60, from Berwick, and his wife Debra, recently held a fundraising thank you party for friends and family who supported them following Graeme’s sudden cardiac arrest. The party took place on 31 August, just over a year after Graeme was airlifted to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) by the Great North Air … Continued
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS), in collaboration with the Red Sky Foundation, is spearheading a one-week campaign, “Every Vehicle Every Heartbeat,” aimed at saving lives. Organised through Big Give, and running from 3 December to 10 December, the campaign seeks to raise £25,000 from public donations, which will be matched by Big Give … Continued
The awards recognise truly inspiring females across the North East, who make a difference in their field, to their businesses and colleagues, to their community and to our region. Here’s just some of Hollie’s incredible accomplishments which highlight why she deserved to win. Hollie joined us at the start of 2022 at the age of … Continued
Julia Shaw, 59, a former full-time racing cyclist, who specialises in the individual time trial, had travelled from her home in Hampshire with her partner Andrew to a cottage in Ullswater, for a short break away. On 3 September they had embarked on a long walk and were approaching the summit of Place Fell when … Continued
Carl Griffiths, 29, who lives in Middlesbrough, had spent the day travelling to Sunderland with his partner Josh to pick up their Jack Russell, Luna, from Veterinary Vision, after they required an eye operation. The pair also did some shopping and arrived back home at around 3pm, before visiting Josh’s auntie at her home in … Continued
We recently welcomed Sarah to the team as one of our new paramedics. Sarah is originally from Leeds but spent a large portion of her career in London, where she trained to be a paramedic, before moving back up North, and currently resides in Teesside. She will be working across both of our bases, in … Continued
JJ Smith, from the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was flying over Washington back towards the charity’s headquarters near Eaglescliffe on Monday evening when a laser beam was shone into the helicopter’s cabin. Two doctors and a paramedic were also on board the aircraft and witnessed the green light of a laser pen which … Continued
