Patients are not priority, warn half of staff at scandal ambulance service

Patients are not priority, warn half of staff at scandal ambulance service Almost half of staff at a scandal-hit ambulance trust do not think their patients are put first, with almost one quarter too frightened to raise safety concerns with managers, research shows.

The NHS staff survey shows that South East Coast Ambulance trust is the worst in the country across a host of rankings.

The trust has been at the centre of a string of scandals, with at least two call handlers saying they were driven to attempt suicide as a result of an “endemic culture of bullying”.

Several claimed they were left under such pressure they could not concentrate on emergency calls, impairing their responses to the public. The Daily Telegraph