Our doctors and paramedics say the money will enable them to reach hundreds more severely ill and injured people in the region every year. The charity currently provides air ambulance services across the region, mainly in hours of daylight. In 2015, in partnership with the North East Ambulance Service, we also started providing a rapid … Continued
The Airbus Helicopters AS365 Dauphin N3+ is expected to arrive in Spring next year after GNAAS struck a deal for the £5m aircraft. A deposit has already been paid on the helicopter, with the remaining cost spread over the next ten years. We currently own three Dauphin N2 aircraft which are each nearly thirty years … Continued
The 49-year-old from Middlesbrough was on a charity walk with his friends and family at the famous North York Moors hill when he started to feel unwell halfway up. Having often been described as the ‘fit and active one’ in the family, he was determined to reach the top. Mosh Spence managed to achieve this … Continued
1 – Making and running a course like this has so many moving parts. It takes months of planning and regular meetings. More work than we ever thought. We got asked to take the course on when we became consultants. It was ready for a reinvigoration. We wanted to move from it being a course … Continued
Mr Robson, who runs Jarrow-based environmental engineering firm Roflow, hosts the Sedgefield Racecourse Ladies Evening every summer to raise money for the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS). The charity has a special connection with Mr Robson after it airlifted his dying mother, allowing him to share precious moments with her before she passed away. … Continued
Every year as faculty for the Great North Air Ambulance Service’s (GNAAS) Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine Crew Course (PHEMCC), we sit down and try to see if we can improve the fidelity of our course. 2019 has been a very successful course, with (as every year) our pièce de résistance, a simulated road collision on the penultimate … Continued
Instead, Mrs Rastrick and her husband Phil drove six hours, almost the entire length of the country from their home near Southampton to Olly’s hospital bedside at the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle. It was a frantic drive, and one beset by an overwhelming fear for what awaited them in the North-East. “I instantly … Continued
I remember us coming into work that morning and while we were doing the normal checks, we took a phone call from the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) about an ongoing job near Hamsterley. The aircraft was offline until 9am so we made the decision to drive up to the scene. We set off at … Continued
A team from the UK Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) will seek to determine the cause of the incident, which left the glider’s male pilot with a head injury, according to BBC Cumbria: A glider aircraft has crashed on a Cumbrian mountain. It happened on Cross Fell on the Pennines this afternoon. A man’s been … Continued
Three people were injured when two vehicles collided on the A591 at Thirlmere. GNAAS landed on the beach of the lake at 12.05pm, with the two doctors and a paramedic on board joining colleagues from North West Ambulance Service at the collision scene. The aircraft then repositioned to a site south of the lake which … Continued
