These press stories make me angry! When ambulance staff are on a break, they are not being paid - in effect they are not at work. What next? Newspapers will be complaining that ambulance workers go home between shifts, resulting in deaths that could have been avoided if they were at work 24/7??? Now I agree it would be scandalous if a person in a typical office job were, say, to refuse to call an ambulance for an injured colleague because they are on their lunchbreak, or if the designated office first aider refused to help someone for the same reason. But there is a difference. Ambulance staff deal with emergencies all day every day as their job. If you start refusing them breaks because a life-or-death situation has arisen, they would never get breaks. And then the newspapers would be moaning that ambulance workers are being forced to work 12 hours straight, without breaks, causing them to get tired and make mistakes... putting lives in danger. You really can't win with the press.