December 29th, 2011 by Editor | 1 Comment
TORONTO — A Canadian-led study finds that more than two-thirds of paramedics have experienced verbal, physical or sexual abuse on the job. Emergency Medical Service workers in Ontario and Nova Scotia were invited to take part in the study while attending a continuing education seminar this year, and 90 per cent responded. More than 1,300 [...]
July 6th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
It goes without saying that attacks on emergency service personnel going about their business are entirely unacceptable
July 2nd, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
cemetery visitor who drunkenly abused ambulance crew members has been placed on probation for two years
June 18th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
A pensioner who slapped a paramedic as he tried to resuscitate him has been told to clean up his act
June 11th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
A drunken teenage girl who broke a paramedic’s finger has been ordered to pay him £1,200 in compensation
June 10th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
Two thugs were today behind bars after launching sickening attacks on 999 workers
May 25th, 2009 by Editor | 1 Comment
We hear reports of drunks kicking off in police cells and A&E departments and assaulting police officers and nursing staff, but what about the ambulance staff who are often first on the scene?
May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments

Dozens of front-line ambulance crews are being attacked or verbally abused while trying to do their job
May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
Two paramedics feared for their lives after they were lured into a man’s home and threatened with a knife, a court heard yesterday
May 25th, 2009 by Editor | No Comments
Terrified paramedic Daryen Lemmon has told how he had to use a chair to fend off an abusive patient