A North East paramedic has spoken of how NHS staff like her are on strike because they are "demoralised", and fed up of a "really scary" situation which is seeing patients across the UK put at risk.
The paramedic told ChronicleLive the shocking truth about how it feels when paramedics are stuck desperately fighting to keep poorly patients alive when there's not a bed in A&E - and how she understands the frustrations of those forced to wait hours for help. Speaking during the third day of strike action by North East Ambulance Service staff affiliated with the UNISON, Unite and GMB unions, the experienced NHS worker laid the blame for the NHS crisis firmly at the door of the Government.
Paramedic Rachel - who has asked that only her first name be published - qualified more than a decade ago and said being a paramedic was her "vocation". But she said contending with long queues outside of hospitals and seeing patients put in greater danger than they should be was heartbreaking.
