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"Tea break" Ambulance driver....


Johnboy

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its not really the Ambulance Service you can blame. If Europe hadnt interfered several years ago the T echnician would have been on the old style contract, the one that forced SAS staff to work all day without food or breaks if they were called out. But as he joined the Service after Europe got involved, he is forced to take his break if he wants to or not. The old contracts will have Ambulance drivers working 12 or even 16 hours without a break for food or anything if they are busy. It is meant to improve service by having " fresh " staff atteand incidents. Would you rather a keen concentrated ambulance technician attend if you had an accident, or the lottery draw the team attending have worked without a break for 14 hours.

In many ways it will improve the service delivery, but in outlying areas it can be very counter productive because of the areas covered.

Simple answer is to employ more trained staff to cover the Highlands especially the outlying areas, but hold on you have to do that with a 15% cut to your budget from the government. The service is having to cut staff rather than employ more, but the public expects better delivery with less teams and more single person ambulances, with European working regulations messing things up at the same time!

Would you take a 30% pay cut so the service can comply with Europes work rules, taking your wage to below 18,000 when you are out saving lives and seeing incredibly horrible sights. S ure we are all going to vote to make things harder for ourselves domestically, like the majority of us the older guys in the service will be trying to look out for themselves, as they get paid additional money to respond on these old service contracts.

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