Ambulance service dispute escalates
- Title
- Ambulance service dispute escalates
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 16 Nov 1989
- Year of production
- 1989
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- Duration
- 00:03:49
- Description
- London’s chief ambulance officer, Tom Crosby, on controllers’ decision not to pass on 999 calls to police and army crews as the dispute escalates. Says he has a duty to provide a credible operation and won’t bow to threats from the unions, denies lives are being put at risk. Interviewer not identified. For Update programme.
- Contributors
- Tom Crosby
- Keywords
- London; Trade unions; Emergency services; Labour disputes; Working conditions; Ambulance services; Update (radio programme)
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