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The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) is a charitably funded air ambulance service which provides life-saving care throughout the North East, North Yorkshire, Cumbria and the Isle of Man.

They operate two helicopters 365 days a year and also operate a night-time service in the North East and Cumbria on rapid response vehicles.
The aircraft cover an area of more than 8,000 square miles and on board their aircraft and rapid response vehicles are specialist doctors and paramedics who effectively bring the hospital to the patient.
The level of skill and expertise of the on-board team mean they respond to the most critically ill and injured people, giving them the best chance of survival.

Last year, their critical care team responded to more than 2,160 incidents across the region, including road traffic collisions, cardiac arrests and falls. That’s potentially several lives saved, and many families kept together as a result.

As a charity, GNAAS do not receive Government funding and must therefore raise £8.5m a year through public donations to remain operational,with a daily Operational cost to run both bases here in the North East and North West is £23,200 per day and on average 6 call out missions per day.