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North East Ambulance Charity has received £142,000 from NHS Charities Together to support work aimed at improving survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.

After his dad survived a cardiac arrest three year ago, Ryan Callum decided to raise funds for those who saved his life and has handed over a donation to North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) following an impressive challenge.

Eleven North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) colleagues have been recognised for their extraordinary commitment to caring for the people of the North East, collectively representing more than 240 years of dedication, compassion, and service.

A North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) crew and Northern Neonatal Network (NORNET) nurse from the Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI) in Newcastle recently reunited with a very special patient and her family, three months after carefully transferring her between hospitals.

48-year-old midwife Charlotte from Ingleby Barwick has been reunited with the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) teams who saved her life after she suffered a cardiac arrest at home. 

North East Ambulance Service’s Hartlepool South station has become one of the first NHS sites in the country to install new Great British Energy solar panels, helping to cut energy bills by around £4,700 a year.

Newcastle residents are to benefit from an additional ambulance station this month as North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) join forces with Tyne and Wear Fire Rescue Service (TWFRS) at a new co-located site in Gosforth.