A paramedic who attempted to perform a citizens arrest on a man who bit him has been awarded £1,000 compensation and £400 reward from public funds for his “public spiritedness”

Up to 70 per cent of visits to hospital casualty departments are alcohol-related, MPs were told yesterday. In London, the number of emergency admissions through drink has soared by 11 per cent in one year

A man has been jailed for six weeks after abusing paramedics and nursing staff trying to help him after he took a cocktail of drink and drugs

A lonely drunk spent 18 hours phoning 999 just to have someone to talk to.

A paramedic stripped to his underwear at Tesco in Addlestone – after the cashier refused to sell him alcohol

Hospital staff are suffering attacks by their patients, a report has warned. There were 154 staff incidents across North Essex in the nine months leading up to December 31

Lucy Churchill scratched, kicked and spat at a paramedic before hitting a police officer, a court heard. Churchill, 22, was found unconscious on a bus travelling from Stonehouse to Stroud on Friday, March 13

Two ambulance managers used an NHS vehicle to go on a “booze cruise” to France, a disciplinary panel has heard. Ambulance staff had some seats taken out to fit in more alcohol, it was claimed

An Ambulance Service has issued an unreserved apology to witnesses of an altercation between trainee paramedics celebrating their exam success. The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service (NIAS) confirmed two people have been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into the incident during a Paramedic in Training course.