Striking staff on Greater Manchester picket lines also speak out on why they are taking action
A long-serving paramedic taking strike action today has told of the horror of patient deaths after ambulance delays, describing the current pressure on services as 'relentless'.
Dave Robb, 64, a paramedic for 36 years in the North West, based in Warrington, said colleagues were quitting as they 'can not do it any longer'. "We have got far too much demand on the ambulance service and due to insufficient funding we cannot provide adequate cover any more," he told the Mirror. He went on: "We don’t have winter pressures anymore. We have pressures every single day, seven days a week, 52 weeks a year. It is absolutely with a heavy heart we take any type of industrial action. The last time we took proper action was 1989, it isn’t something we do lightly."
"Day to day we are seeing delays on ambulances of 12 hours plus for patients who are on the floor - and it's just not acceptable anymore. Our members have spoken and said they are not prepared to take the abuse that we are getting from members of the public - we are the first person they see after that call was made some 12 hours later.
He told the PM that hospital and ambulance bosses had warned they “cannot guarantee patient safety” during the industrial action. “It is clear we have entered dangerous territory,” he added. Unite national lead officer Onay Kasab said it was “made entirely pointless by Steve Barclay who refused to discuss pay”. “How he hopes to get movement and resolve the dispute without discussing the key issue is mystifying,” he added.
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