Assaults against Scottish Ambulance Service staff have now reached a five-year high, with figures showing more than 1,800 members of staff have been physically or verbally assaulted while on duty ...

Scottish ambulance crews have bee put on the highest level of emergency due to "significant pressure" placed on services. The Scottish Ambulance Service escalated its resource escalation action ...

An ambulance staff member is assaulted nearly every day in Scotland on average, with an increase of over 10% compared to last year. Figures from the Scottish Ambulance Service show 346 staff ...

Scottish Ambulance Service workers will stage a 26-hour strike later this month over pay. GMB Scotland confirmed its members will take action from 06:00 on 28 November to 07:59 the following day.

In 2020, the Scottish Ambulance Service recorded 261 incidents of physical and verbal abuse from patients towards ambulance staff, increasing to 376 in 2024 - a rise of 44 per cent. In the last year ...

Unite said all of its Scottish Ambulance Service workers would take "continuous action short of strike" from 00.01 on 25 November. The action will include an overtime ban and work to rule.

The Scottish Ambulance Service says figures which show attacks on staff and paramedics are at a five-year-high across the country are “completely unacceptable". More than 1500 staff and paramedics ...

In 2008, former first minister Nicola Sturgeon – who was health secretary at the time – asked the Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) to ban emergency responders from attending incidents on their ...