I'm often involved with the patients that arrive at James Cook University Hospital courtesy of the Great North Air Ambulance Service.

Without the service provided by GNASS, people who have suffered accidents would not have the outcomes they do as it would take so much longer for them to receive medical support and to reach a major trauma centre.

We never know when any of us might need support from the air ambulance and so for that simple reason I am running the GNR for GNAAS.

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