Paramedics are railing against an order from emergency service chiefs to end the trust's ambulance cleaning contract. The frontline workers say the decision will see them delayed from going to their next 999 call because they have to stop and clean the vehicles themselves after dropping a patient off at hospital.
The order, set out in a letter from North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) bosses to staff - leaked to the Manchester Evening News - will bring an end to a cleaning provision in place since the beginning of the pandemic. The trust says that the contract with the external cleaning company is 'unaffordable', costing more than '£3 million per year', reads the letter.
