The NHS is set for its biggest ever day of industrial action next month as nurses and ambulance workers go on strike on February 6 amid a pay dispute with the government. In the first of a series of reports on the multiple crises in the UK, FRANCE 24 spoke to paramedics in London about their reasons for striking.
Steve has been driving an ambulance in London for 27 years. He said he felt there was no choice but to go on strike because of problems like staffing shortages: “I didn’t join this job to go on strike; I joined this job to care for people. But the lack of funding, the poor pay rises that we have had, have left tens of thousands of vacancies across the NHS.”
