Hero paramedics at ‘breaking point’

A survey of 2,000 ambulance staff revealed the following ...

3 out of 4 paramedics say they’re at ‘breaking point’ as they describe how patients are dying while waiting for ambulances

Staff are suffering low morale and many believe the crisis is much worse than the first peak in March

2outof3 said they should have better PPE, with some saying the situation was ‘very scary’

Ambulance staff described how they were ‘overwhelmed’ as ‘calls waiting are in their hundreds for hours on end with little or no resources to send’

In 24 years in the ambulance service I’ve never ever seen staff sat on station at the start of the shift so frightened (almost to tears) to go out on an ambulance - one respondent said

A paramedic said they had seen a taxi pull up in an ambulance bay with a dead man inside as his wife was shouting for help