Mark Smith says ambulance staff are frustrated they are unable to adequately help patients
Simon Day, another WMAS paramedic who lives near Telford, said the wages "stagnation" and underfunding of the NHS "as a whole" was the root cause of pressures causing high numbers of workers to leave.Monday markswith ambulance staff in the GMB and Unite unions involved, as well as Royal College of Nursing members in England.
Mr Smith, from Hereford, a paramedic with the RAF in Iraq during both Gulf Wars, said the dispute was not just about pay but overall funding for the NHS.Mr Smith said life-threatening calls would still be responded to on Monday
Honest answer to the inevitable question: Q. What if people die due to strikes? A. We are striking as the rate of patient death caused by this Governments cuts, has become intolerable. We want better outcomes for patients and colleagues. We are fighting for this.