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Air ambulance called to Wynyard and patient taken to hospital
The air ambulance assisted a ground paramedic crew attending an address at Wynyard, near Stockton, today (Sunday, January 6).
The Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) helicopter landed in a field off Bloomfield Drive shortly before 2pm.
Its critical care team attended at the property to assist the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) in treating and assessing a patient, who was then taken to hospital by a ground ambulance crew.
A GNAAS spokesperson told The Northern Echo: “Our critical care team was activated at 1.44pm to an incident in Wynyard.
“We had a doctor and paramedic on board our aircraft and they arrived on scene at 1.50pm.
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“Our team worked alongside the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) to assess and treat a patient.
“The patient was taken to hospital by a NEAS road crew.”
NEAS confirmed it had attended at a property at Wynyard to help deal with the medical incident.
