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Most ambulance emergency calls end in ‘adverse clinical event,’ poll finds
The Scottish Ambulance Service base at Glasgow Airport, March 2016

MOST emergency calls end in an “adverse clinical event” due to delays in responding and hospital pressures, ambulance workers in Scotland warned today.

A Unite poll of Scottish Ambulance Service staff found that an alarming 53 per cent of calls were affected.

Eighty-five per cent of those surveyed said that they had been the victim of some form of abuse at work, while two-thirds said they had considered leaving the organisation.

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