Ambulance strikes: Patients ‘transfer aggression’ onto paramedics, NHS staff warn
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Striking ambulance workers have warned patients frustrated by NHS delays are “transferring aggression” onto paramedics.
It comes as medics staged the third ambulance walkout during the current spate of industrial action, which has seen nurses, train drivers, postal workers and university staff down tools.
Staff in three unions - GMB, Unison and Unite - are striking in a dispute over pay, with non-life threatening emergency calls such as falls in icy conditions not being attended.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a Level 3 cold alert until Friday, with health warnings for vulnerable patients, and those over 65 urged to heat their homes to 18C.
Paramedics manned a picket line at Waterloo ambulance station today (Monday, January 23) and vowed to continue the fight amid fears over patient safety, pay and conditions.
Antonia Gosnell, who has worked for the London Ambulance Service (LAS) for 33 years, told LondonWorld: “It’s been a hard decision but the right one. We’ve been pushed to this point.”
It comes as medics staged the third ambulance walkout during the current spate of industrial action, which has seen nurses, train drivers, postal workers and university staff down tools.
Staff in three unions - GMB, Unison and Unite - are striking in a dispute over pay, with non-life threatening emergency calls such as falls in icy conditions not being attended.
The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has issued a Level 3 cold alert until Friday, with health warnings for vulnerable patients, and those over 65 urged to heat their homes to 18C.
Paramedics manned a picket line at Waterloo ambulance station today (Monday, January 23) and vowed to continue the fight amid fears over patient safety, pay and conditions.
Antonia Gosnell, who has worked for the London Ambulance Service (LAS) for 33 years, told LondonWorld: “It’s been a hard decision but the right one. We’ve been pushed to this point.”