Dr Rachel Hawes OBE is a Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pre-hospital Emergency Medicine at the RVI and an Army Reservist, as well as an Emergency Doctor with the Great North Air Ambulance Service. Dr Hawes headed up the “Blood on Board” project in the North East and Cumbria for GNAAS, working alongside Northumbria and Cumbria … Continued

Sarah Graham, from Bassenthwaite, Cumbria, joined the Great North Air Ambulance Service in 2016. What made you choose a career as a paramedic? I’ve always been interested in it, and the more I experienced the more I wanted to do. I started off in outdoors education and dealt with a couple of big incidents with … Continued

As well as working with the Great North Air Ambulance Service, Dr Duffy is an Emergency Department/Pre-Hospital Care Consultant working in Carlisle Trauma Unit and Officer Command Clinician at 201 Field Hospital, with whom she has gone on tours of Iraq and Afghanistan. What made you choose a career in pre-hospital emergency medicine? I wanted … Continued