Herts Ambo Bloke I couldnt have put it better. I emailed our Chief Exec & urged him to put out a press release to reassure members of the public that the EMT's in our Trust are fully trained and to stress that care will not be second class if delivered by a Technician. I read yesterday (Wednesday) in our local paper the Exec saying "10% of calls are life threatening and the other 90% are non life threatening which EMT's are adequately trained to deal with". So we get kicked in the bits by out Exec too!! He implies to the public that Tech's are unable to deal with life threatening calls but can deal with the other 90% shiyte. The programme has placed untold pressures on all Techs in the country and made attending work a difficult place to be. It's offensive and insulting crap.