Well.... the sad fact of the matter is that it's not just ambulance staff facing this... the whole NHS. You have cleaners writing excellent job descriptions and getting "matched" to salaries higher than trained professionals with a mountain of student debt to do... you have the new banded salaries being proposed as a fraction of the average salary of the same job in private practice. In a lot of cases (occuptional therapy, optometry, physiotherapy etc..) people knew the NHS wage was always a bit lower but chose to stay in the NHS for the different type of job, the atmosphere, the security, now i know the BBC has reported that occupational therapists for one are about to do a mass resignation with regards to their bandings and I'm sure other professions are going the same way as we're going not from slightly below average across the profession.... but sizeable chunk of thousands of pounds less than the average wage for that job. The only people I see benefiting from agenda for change are the porters, cleaners and catering staff... Agenda for Change doesn't match you, the person, to the wage your worth for the abilities and skills you bring to the task. Reynolds i'm sure brings more to the job than his job description is worth... he isn't the bare minimum, barely competent level of skills that the job requires... and those are the skills you get matched on - what the job is not what you are. So Reynolds like the rest of us will be on the wrong end of what should have been a great opportunity.