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Great North Air Ambulance Service
Swooping in from the skies, the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) fulfils community-powered emergency care across the North-East, North Yorkshire and Cumbria. Operating three helicopters, 365 days a year, GNAAS crews respond to over 1,500 call outs each year. Onboard each aircraft are specialist trauma doctors and paramedics, who bring accident and emergency expertise to the scene.
Mercy Ships UK
Mercy Ships brings free, life-changing surgeries to people across sub-Saharan Africa. As faith-based charity, we follow the model of Jesus to bring hope and healing. Our hospital ships reach women, men and children facing poverty. From blindness to bowed legs. Cleft lips to tumours. Our medical volunteers help those who have no one else to turn to. We couldn’t do this you.
The Air Ambulance Service
Our local air ambulances; Warwickshire & Northamptonshire Air Ambulance and Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland Air Ambulance fly every day of the year, helping to save more lives. Our critical care paramedics, doctors and pilots fly an average of six missions a day, over an area of 3,850 square miles and a population of over 3.2million.
The Children’s Air Ambulance
The Children’s Air Ambulance is a national service, changing the face of paediatric care through the high speed transfer of critically ill children and flying them from one hospital to another for specialist care. It is the first and only dedicated paediatric helicopter emergency transfer service in the country.
Wessex Medical Research
Wessex Medical Research funds medical research based principally at the Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust but also in the greater Wessex region comprising Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Dorset, South Wiltshire and the Channel Islands. Current areas of research activity include breast, cervical, ovarian and prostate cancer, leukaemia, melanoma, strokes, respiratory diseases, Alzheimer’s Disease, autism, childhood disorders including child brain injury and developmental studies during pregnancy.