Eight hour queues with patients in hospital corridors, an overwhelming list of emergency calls and arriving at jobs to find patients have already died - this is the reality for a paramedic in our crisis-hit National Health Service.
As ambulance staff took to the picket line today for an historic walk-out, one long-serving paramedic laid out the terrifying reality he and his colleagues now face on a daily basis.
Dave Harris, based in Birkenhead, has worked for the North West Ambulance Service for 27 years and has never known anything as bleak and as difficult as what his team now face. He says more and more people will die until the government listens to health workers about the crisis in the system.
