Ambulance bosses have defended claims that patients lives’ are being put at risk because of overstretched staff. According to a paramedic working in Hull for Yorkshire Ambulance Service, staff are stretched to the limit, often working 12 hour shifts and sometimes up to 13 or 14 hours, without a meal break. He claimed over Christmas [...]

Remember what Cameron said before the election? He said that the NHS would not be cut in real terms, that no ‘front line’ staff would go. Remember what he said after the election? The NHS is safe with the coalition. Spending on the NHS would be ‘ring fenced’. True, he said that the NHS would [...]

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”

Dozens of front-line ambulance crews are being attacked or verbally abused while trying to do their job

Crews without the essential mobile/radios putting them selves at risk on a daily basis. UNISON will take action against the employer with in a range of sanctions including reporting the trust to the H.S.E.under Health and Safety legislation

A European Court of Justice ruling, released on January 20th, states that employees should still accrue paid holiday, on the basis that they could not take those days off due to sickness

UNISON’s South East Coast Ambulance Service branch launched a brand new website last week. Designed by award winning web developer, Kevin McKeown, the site will provide help, advice and up-to-date information for over 1500 UNISON members in SECAmb.