Binge-drinkers who get into fights or fall over and hurt themselves will soon have their own street paramedic to tend their injuries – volunteers please?

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?

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

Terrified paramedic Daryen Lemmon has told how he had to use a chair to fend off an abusive patient

A 35-year-old man has been arrested after two members of an ambulance crew were attacked as they responded to a call-out in Londonderry

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 police helicopter and tracker dogs were used to hunt a man who became abusive towards paramedics

Close circuit television cameras are to be placed in four Welsh hospitals to help protect staff from violence and aggression. Latest figures for 2006-07 show that there were 8,466 incidents of violence against NHS staff, ranging from verbal abuse to serious physical assaults

It is a very dangerous job without much back-up, paramedics are assaulted in the line of duty. Lawmakers are hoping to change all that with a new measure

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