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20 results found for '"London Ambulance Service"' in Keywords.
London ambulance dispute (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
The ambulance dispute over wages continues with police manning makeshift ambulances, Nigel Dearing reports. London Police Federation spokesman Mike Bennett does not want the public to blame the police if...
Ambulance dispute - Drop in number of 999 calls (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Interview with the London Ambulance Service’s Chief Officer, Tom Crosby, who says emergency calls for ambulances have slumped since army vehicles were drafted in to replace regular ambulance crews. In the...
Hugh Millington, consultant, on ambulance dispute (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Margaret Shiels interviews hospital consultant, Hugh Millington about the ambulance workers’ dispute. He says he wants to see ambulancemen back at work doing their jobs before patients’ lives are put at...
Ambulance dispute - Army reaction (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Nigel Dearing reports on the repercussions of the ambulance workers’ dispute. Army ambulance crews have spent the night answering emergency calls across London. They were ordered onto the streets after...
Ambulance dispute - Army reaction (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Margaret Shiels interviews Army ambulance crews at Charing Cross Hospital, following the start of the ambulance workers’ dispute. They were ordered onto the streets after both sides in the pay dispute...
Ambulance dispute - Workers’ experiences (1989)
- Genre
- Interview
Shirley Mulrennan(?) interviews ambulance workers at Europe’s largest ambulance depot in Fulham, London. They speak about the mood of staff during the ambulance dispute and talk about struggling to survive...
Ambulance dispute - Man dies of asthma attack (1989)
- Genre
- Interview; News report
Simon Bowden reports on the death of a north London man who waited forty minutes for medical help â even though a fully-manned ambulance station was only five minutes from his home. 35 year-old Clifford...
Ambulance dispute - Controllers’ views (1989)
- Genre
- News report; Interview
Oni Bhattacharya reports on the continuing ambulance dispute. Ambulance controllers in London claim that up to six lives a day are being lost because the system to send out information to the Police and Army...
London Ambulance Service deteriorates (1990)
- Genre
- Interview
Paramedic, Alan Clark(?) talks to Paul Rowley about the deterioration of the London Ambulance Service with a lack of finance and qualified staff. The national pay dispute earlier this year has achieved...
London ambulance workers support Poole’s leadership and vote against strike ballot (1990)
- Genre
- Interview; News report; Vox pop
Following a shop stewards’ vote against a strike ballot, ambulance workers in north London express their total support for the leadership of Roger Poole, Secretary of Unison. Poole says union members will...