A striking ambulance worker has warned that “morale is rock bottom” in the service and knows of at least three colleagues who have committed suicide in the last year.
Dad of three Shaun Sproule, 43, has previously taken time off from his role with North West Ambulance Service due to stress, and now volunteers to support colleagues with anxiety and depression as a result of the job.
His day job is managing community defibrillators and first responder volunteers across Cumbria and Lancashire, but he has to do overtime as an ambulance technician on the roads, just to “make ends meet”.
