Emergency services responded to a 'medical emergency' on Holy Island.
The North East Ambulance Service were called at 3.30pm on Sunday afternoon to attend to a patient on Holy Island.
Due to incoming the tide, the ambulance service requested assistance from the RNLI to transport the crew from Seahouses Harbour to Holy Island.
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The patient was then taken to Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital.
A spokesperson for the North East Ambulance Service said: "We were called at 3.30pm to attend to a patient on Holy Island.
"The tide was due to close after 4pm so we requested assistance from the RNLI to take the crew from Seahouses and bring back the patient. We took one patient to Northumbria Hospital."
In a statement on Facebook, a spokesperson for the Seahouses Lifeboat Station said: "This was yet another good example of the emergency services working closely together, for the welfare and benefit of a person on Holy Island requiring medical assistance when the causeway was closed by the tide."
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