GNAAS crew called into action


The GNAAS crew were called into action twice yesterday. The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was yesterday called, at 2pm, to Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, where a 66-year-old man had fallen and sustained leg injuries.

The GNAAS crew were called into action twice yesterday.

The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) was yesterday called, at 2pm, to Bowness-on-Windermere, Lake District, where a 66-year-old man had fallen and sustained leg injuries. The GNAAS doctor-led aircrew worked alongside North West Ambulance Service to assess the patient, from West Sussex, before he was flown to the Royal Preston Hospital in a flight that took just nine minutes, the same journey by road would have taken around one hour. He arrived in a stable condition and is now receiving ongoing treatment.

Later yesterday, at 4.15pm, we were called to Berwick, where a 62-year-old male cyclist, believed local, had sustained serious head injuries after a collision with a vehicle. The patient was put into an induced coma before being given a blood transfusion en route to hospital. He was flown to the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle. The flight took 23 minutes. The patient was in a serious but stable condition on arrival.

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