Letter: Unfair to crews

Your report (4 January) on the events in Tomintoul, where an ambulance technician declined to answer a call during his break, perhaps fails to note the real issue.

The Scottish Ambulance Service is presumably well aware that having hungry and tired crews does not produce a good service. Doubtless, it is also aware that working without breaks is miserable, and in any job this would result in the best qualified staff moving to other jobs.

Ambulance crews should be ordered to take their breaks and not to attend calls during them. Putting crews in the position where they have to decide shows a complete lack of moral courage on the part of those paid to organise the service.

CRAIG ROSS

Windlaw Road

Carmunnock, Lanarkshire