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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
John Stevens & Martin Bagot & Abigail Nicholson

Cash-strapped ambulance services means paramedics arrive to dead patients

Paramedics have released the devastating circumstances that see them arrive to find dead patients they are too late to save.

Emergency service workers say they are routinely confronted by ­relatives demanding to know why their loved ones have been lost. Ambulance workers will be holding their first national strike in more than 30 years starting on Wednesday.

Nine of the 10 ambulance services in England and Wales will be affected, as crews who are members of the GMB, Unison and Unite unions head to picket lines. Health Secretary Steve Barclay met union leaders on Tuesday but they said it was “entirely pointless” as he would not discuss pay, Mirror Online reports.

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