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Thousands of ambulance workers strike amid ‘disheartening’ and ‘demoralising’ conditions in the NHS
Head of Health at Unison, Sara Gorton, joins ambulance workers on the picket line outside London Ambulance Service NHS Trust control room in Waterloo, London, as members of Unison and GMB unions take strike action over pay and conditions that will affect non-life threatening calls
THOUSANDS of ambulance workers across England and Wales took strike action today in face of the “disheartening” and “demoralising” conditions in the NHS.
Up to 25,000 paramedics, call handlers, drivers and technicians from Unison and GMB took part in the action across 24 hours in a dispute with the government over pay.
Workers on the picket lines said it was the last place they wanted to be, describing regular hours-long waits to hand over patients from ambulances to the care of doctors and nurses.
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