AMBULANCE workers are “leaving in droves” as demand for services rises 10 times faster than staffing levels, the GMB union warned today.

Official NHS figures show that the service received 14 million calls in 2021-22, a massive increase of 77 per cent on the 7.9m made in 2010-11, the health union said. 

Over the same period, the number of ambulance workers has risen by just 7 per cent, heaping more pressure on overstretched staff, it said.