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Send your loved ones the Great Western Air Ambulance Christmas e-card

Friday, December 19, 2008

The Great Western Air Ambulance is encouraging people readers to spread festive cheer by email – and support its appeal to raise £1.3 million to keep its helicopter flying

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Bristol Rugby players back Great Western Air Ambulance

Friday, December 12, 2008

Bristol Rugby players Roy Winters and Neil Brew visited the Great Western Air Ambulance's to support their appeal to raise £1.3 million

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Great Western Air Ambulance visits school's fundraising day

Friday, December 05, 2008

The Great Western Air Ambulance team landed at Katharine Lady Berkeley's school, Wotton-under-Edge, to visit former patient Andrew Bryce, 16 ...

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Great Western Air Ambulance at more than two incidents a day

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Paramedics and doctors from Great Western Air Ambulance had 72 serious incidents in the Bristol area in October

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Bristol fundraises for GWAA

Bristol fundraises for GWAA

Friday, October 31, 2008

Events are being organised across Bristol to help Great Western Air Ambulance raise the £1.3 million they need to keep their helicopter flying....

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Bristol Christmas lights launch to raise funds for GWAA

Bristol Christmas lights launch to raise funds for GWAA

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Whenthe Christmas lights are switched on in Thornbury this year, families will have the chance to support the life-saving work of the Great...

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Donations head skyward in first week of air ambulance appeal

The Great Western Air Ambulance crew in action

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Donations have poured into the Evening Post offices from readers supporting Great Western Air Ambulance's appeal to raise £1.3 million. Within...

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Shop online and raise funds to keep Bristol's air ambulance flying

Sunday, October 26, 2008

Shoppers can do their bit to help keep the air ambulance flying by logging on to a special website. Great Western Air Ambulance (GWAA) needs to...

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M5 crash: driver airlifted to hospital

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Thursday, October 23, 2008

A man was airlifted to hospital with head injuries after a car hit the central reservation on the M5 near Bristol. The Great Western Air...

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A day in the life of Great Western Air Ambulance crew

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Behind the doors of a large hangar in Bristol a team in orange suits are hard at work. The roaring of engines can be heard from aircraft flying...

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The Evening Post has joined forces with the Great Western Air Ambulance to help them raise the more than one million they need each year to keep their helicopter flying.
The service flies a crew of doctors and specialist paramedics to emergencies to provide A&E standard care at the scene, helping save lives and minimise the possibility of more serious injury.
They can stabilise patients and help them breathe and in the most serious cases can anaesthetise people and carry out other emergency procedures while they are still in their home, on the roadside or sports pitch.
Patients are then transported to the most appropriate hospital for their injuries rather than the nearest because the initial preparation has already been carried out at the scene.
It also enables a casualty to be taken straight into the operating theatre, scanner or intensive treatment unit when they arrive at the A&E rather than waiting to be prepared.
Great Western Air Ambulance was launched in June and has already been called to more than 200 incidents and helped save lives but other than the salaries of the paramedics who fly as part of the crew, there is no NHS funding for the service and the team relies on its own dedicated charity and the goodwill of the public to raise the funding needed each year.
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