Morale is at rock bottom at the East of England Ambulance Service, according to unions, while one of the region’s MPs says he has “serious concerns”.

Although management and unions have now agreed to work more closely together, the Unison union says not much has changed since its branch committee wrote a damning letter to the chief executive earlier this year.

The letter said that the situation “is spiralling out of control” and that there is “a disturbing level of disharmony amongst staff and all levels of management”.

It says that the national response time targets are causing “intolerable pressure”, causing “patient care to become secondary”, and that meeting targets is “more important than staff welfare”.

Read full article: Lowestoft Journal.