Bullying of desperate 999 call handlers 'led to suicide attempts’ at scandal-hit ambulance service

Bullying of desperate 999 call handlers 'led to suicide attempts’ at scandal-hit ambulance service Desperate 999 call handlers attempted suicide amid an “endemic culture of bullying” at a scandal-hit ambulance service intent on hitting targets, leaked reports state.

The reports describe a “culture of fear” in an NHS trust which saw employees subjected to repeated abuse and harassment.

In the documents, the then head of the trust is accused of sleeping with young female staff and running a “boys’ club” which protected staff who fiddled figures, and “trashed” the reputations of whistleblowers. The Daily Telegraph