Congratulations to our paramedic Hollie who has won in the category ‘Inspiring Female’ at the North East Chamber of Commerce’s Inspiring Females Awards.
The awards recognise truly inspiring females across the North East, who make a difference in their field, to their businesses and colleagues, to their community and to our region.
Here’s just some of Hollie’s incredible accomplishments which highlight why she deserved to win.
Hollie joined us at the start of 2022 at the age of 28, making her the youngest female critical care paramedic working at GNAAS.
Throughout her flourishing career Hollie has demonstrated a huge passion for her work and consistently gone above and beyond what is expected of her.
Hollie, who lives in County Durham, regards working at GNAAS as one of her biggest achievements, as her role enables her to give back to the area she was born and raised in all her life by providing essential critical care to people in need across the region.
When she’s not busy responding to incidents, she spends her time undertaking projects to enhance the care delivered to patients.
Notably a communications initiative where she set up a direct link process whereby policing teams can contact GNAAS directly if they are first on scene at an incident and they identify a patient who may need critical care.
The process means the police can provide timely and accurate clinical updates from the scene and if our critical care team are required to attend, they can dispatch quicker and ultimately reduce the time for our teams to be at the patient’s side.
This has led to several patients with life-threatening injuries receiving critical care on scene much quicker due to our team dispatching faster.
The initiative was recognised by Durham Constabulary and won an award named ‘five from the floor’ at their 2023 problem solving conference by a majority vote.
In addition to this Hollie has conducted research to assess GNAAS’ impact on patients and written a retrospective analysis of regional data looking into the success rate of treating patients who suffer a cardiac arrest.
As well as conducting her own research projects and furthering her learning, Hollie is also passionate about training and passing on her knowledge and experience to others.
She teaches on GNAAS’ world-renowned pre-hospital emergency medicine courses which are delivered to clinicians such as doctors, paramedics and nurses, and helps with classroom teaching as well as overseeing training scenarios.
She also sits on GNAAS’ clinical standards panel which ensures clinical governance is of a high standard and runs regular debrief meetings with our critical care team following incidents which provide continuous group learning and development.
Aside from her paid role, Hollie also volunteered as a medic for a biodiversity and climate research charity called Operation Wallacea and provided medical support on two separate expeditions.
In addition to looking at ways to improve patient care, Hollie also recognises the importance of raising both awareness and funds for GNAAS.
Most recently one of her personal achievements was completing the Great North Run for the first time. She was joined by a national team of female medics from different air ambulance charities who used their platform to raise awareness of women working in HEMS and hopefully inspire more women to work in this type of industry.
As you can see, Hollie’s awards win was well deserved, and we look forward to seeing what she can achieve over the next few years at GNAAS.
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