A paramedic who was off work for six months after being attacked by a patient is suing ambulance bosses for £100,000 after claiming they did not tell her the call-out was dangerous. Lynn Sutherland was punched and kicked by 16-year-old Grahame Donnelly after racing to his home amid fears he had taken an overdose of [...]

Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon announced that ambulance crews would move to a shorter working week in exchange for being available during rest breaks on 18 January 2012. The death of Mandy Mathieson from Tomintoul, Moray in October last year brought a row over breaks to wider public attention. An ambulance crew based 21 minutes away [...]

A pensioner’s postcode is putting her health at risk as ambulances keep going to the wrong address. Terry Heath, from Reddingmuirhead, suffers from terminal chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and has had to call for help seven times in the past year. Her condition means she needs hospital treatment when she becomes short of breath [...]

The Scottish Government has stepped in to oversee talks aimed at resolving a dispute over rest break arrangements for ambulance staff. Efforts to reach a deal over compensation for paramedics forced to work through their breaks have so far proved unsuccessful. The Scottish Ambulance Service wants to end the practice whereby paramedics are not dispatched [...]

The GMB union is to seek an upgrade in the status of the Scottish Ambulance Service from an essential service to an emergency service like police and fire rescue. Union negotiators made the request during talks with Scottish Ambulance Service management in Edinburgh on Monday. The union also called for Scottish ministers to intervene in [...]

The result of a ballot of ambulance staff, on a new deal to increase their payments for having their breaks interrupted by emergency calls, is due. The death of Mandy Mathieson, of Moray, brought the row to wider public attention. An ambulance technician stationed close to her home did not respond to a call as [...]

Paramedics who attended to a 999 call had their bag containing hospital drugs stolen from their ambulance. The ambulance workers responded to an emergency call in South Lanarkshire on Boxing Day when the thief struck.They were called to a property in Logan Street, Blantyre, at around 1pm. When they returned to their vehicle, the paramedic [...]

Scottish ambulance workers were urged last night to accept the new deal being offered to settle the row over staff being called out on their meal breaks. All mercy crews are being offered £1,500 upfront and £100 if they respond to an emergency during their rest time. The offer – which unions will take to [...]

Ambulance staff are to be balloted on a new offer to end a stand-off over paramedics and technicians being called out during rest breaks. The death of Moray woman Mandy Mathieson last year brought the row to wider public attention. An ambulance technician stationed close to her home did not respond to a call because [...]

SAS seek to recruit eight people as retained ambulance technicians, to be based in Brae, Shetland