https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5A7oVr7TEA
Ambulance response times are the worst on record and the NHS is struggling to cope with a surge in demand this winter.Sky News takes to the road with the Wes

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-what-a-12-hour-paramedic-shift-is-really-like-12794417
Sky News was following West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic Danny Thompson and ambulance technician Dan Fiedler on a 12-hour shift when they responded to the call.

https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-ambulance-crew-12-hour-shift-nhs-b1062338.html
My day accompanying them on a shift comes just 24 hours after more than 11,000 of their ambulance colleagues across England and Wales joined the latest strike over pay, down by £5,600 in real

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-63661168
An advanced paramedic specialising in urgent care, Mr Wisken says: "It is really sad to see patients who have had to wait such a long time for an ambulance - but this is just the culmination of

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/12-hours-ambulance-front-line-b2140774.html
Pulling out of a busy south London A&E in the middle of a 12-hour day shift in mid-August, paramedics Harriet Walton and John Chilvers comprise one of the only free crews in London. With July's

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/20/world/europe/uk-ambulance-delay-nhs-strike.html
Without any available beds, the two paramedics would spend most of their 12-hour shift parked outside the hospital. Around 1 p.m., the patient, frustrated with delays, wanted to leave, but the

https://www.seasideradio.co.uk/news/uk-news/item/68584-nhs-what-a-12-hour-paramedic-shift-is-really-like
NHS: What a 12-hour paramedic shift is really like. Ambulance response times are the worst on record and the NHS is struggling to cope with a surge in demand this winter. Sky News joined West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic Danny Thompson and ambulance technician Dan Fiedler for a 12-hour shift. 7am: Elderly couple 'too scared' to call 999.

https://news.sky.com/story/what-is-it-like-being-a-paramedic-in-the-nhs-11203017
Here, he tells Sky News what a typical day looks like. Mid-morning riser: I work the 1pm to 1am shift so I usually get up around 11am, shower and have breakfast and try to relax a little bit

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/11/nhs-ambulance-service-paramedics-patients-waiting-times
Some have been waiting for longer than 12 hours; some will have life-threatening or life-changing conditions. Six hours into a recent shift, I attended an elderly woman who had fallen over seven

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59237935
By Nick Triggle. Lives are at risk because patients are facing unacceptably long waits for a 999 response, the College of Paramedics has told the BBC. It comes as NHS data shows callouts for

https://inews.co.uk/news/health/nhs-paramedic-diary-shifts-hospital-queues-ambulance-delays-2029190?ico=most_popular
December 18, 2022 6:00 am (Updated December 20, 2022 1:30 pm) NHS emergency workers want the public to understand the toughest of realities they are facing this winter: people are dying because of

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-crisis-two-health-workers-open-up-about-the-daily-firefight-patients-lying-on-floors-and-24-hour-waits-for-admission-12783811
NHS crisis: Two health workers open up about the daily 'firefight', patients lying on floors and 24-hour waits for admission. One doctor described the situation in his A&E as "heartbreaking" while

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-62166818
This should take 15 minutes or less - but crews often wait many hours and sometimes whole 12-hour shifts, with ambulances queuing outside unable to respond to other emergency calls.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-63288545
Karina and fellow paramedic Mandy Clark log on for duty at the Hollymoor Hub in south-west Birmingham, and a job comes through straight away. It's a category two call - the second most serious

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/health-64223141
Judging disruption of an NHS strike on the day it happens is very difficult. By all accounts, demand for the ambulance service has been down - as it was on the strike on 21 December when services

https://briefbriefing.com/2023/01/24/nhs-what-a-12-hour-paramedic-shift-is-really-like/
Ambulance response times are currently the worst on record and the NHS is struggling to cope with a surge in demand this winter. Sky News joined West Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic Danny Thompson and ambulance technician Dan Fiedler for a 12-hour shift.

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-crisis-how-did-we-get-here-and-is-there-a-potential-route-back-12785174
The population of England grew by 6.5% between the 2011 and 2021 census, but that doesn't tell the whole story. The number of people aged between 20 and 50 fell slightly, while the number of over

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/health/paramedic-given-insight-typical-12-13582615
By. Mark Smith. Paramedic Manon Ludlam describes a typical 12-hour shift on the frontline. It's just after 6.30am and I am on my way to work for a 12-hour shift, 7am until 7pm. I'm very lucky

https://www.reddit.com/r/Paramedics/comments/yx2ivs/uk_paramedic_shift_questions/
Not a paramedic, worked as an ECA for 3 years, about to start student paramedic apprenticeship. Most trusts in the UK work 10-12 hour shifts. My trust normal shift pattern is 5 on (2x 12hr days, 2x 10hr nights and a 8-10hr late shift finishing at 2am to finish the week) with anywhere between 2-5 days off inbetween.

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-59237935
Lives are at risk because patients are facing unacceptably long waits for a 999 response, the College of Paramedics has told the BBC. It comes as NHS data shows callouts for problems such as heart

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-in-crisis-heart-attack-and-stroke-patients-waiting-half-an-hour-longer-for-ambulances-than-pre-pandemic-12669818
Mr Webber said: "An ambulance crew would normally do seven or eight call-outs on a 12 hour shift. Now they're spending three or four hours each time waiting to hand patients over, so they're only

https://www.reddit.com/r/nhs/comments/13bmso9/what_are_shift_patterns_for_paramedics/
The short turnaround seems ridiculous on paper but never really minded them. The 3 days/2 nights perhaps are the worst. My shift starts at 6.30 am or pm. After the Friday to Sunday day setting the alarm for 5am, I am on autopilot for 5am on Monday morning too. Also, never been able to get decent sleep before my first shift in even after 15 years.

https://news.sky.com/story/nhs-crisis-the-journey-through-the-emergency-system-12795490
Forty times more people in A&E wait more than 12 hours for hospital beds to become available before they can be admitted. Over 200 times more people have been waiting a year for routine surgery.

https://news.sky.com/story/election-2024-sunak-starmer-conservatives-labour-reform-lib-dem-12593360
Reality star Rylan Clark has revealed the changes he would make to the political system - including introducing a "Power Rangers government". And on the last Friday of the election campaign, the