ATHERTON born Patrick Gormley has been appointed the Greater Manchester Ambulance Service NHS Trust's General Manager for Service Development.
Patrick, 31, has been promoted from General Manager for the service's emergency control centre, and will assume responsibility for developing the service's non-emergency patient transport service, based at the ambulance service HQ in Whitefield.
He joined the service in 1980 as a cadet and graduated to become one of its first paramedics, and the youngest ever in 1985.
In 1990 he became paramedic training officer at the service's Ladybridge Hall training centre in Bolton before becoming paramedic control manager in January 1993.
He is married with two young children. His wife is a ward sister at Wigan Hospice and they live in Ashton.
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