Hi ive been trying to get into the ambulance service for six months both east anglia and london but there are no vacancies. I am a community first responder the ambulance service wouldnt make their eight minutes if it wasnt for us. It doesnt matter how quailified you are if cpr is carried out as soon as possible. Some of the government ministers should go out with the crews for a day. In essex when ive been on a ambulance for a day we can get held up for 20minutes just waiting for a nurse to take the patient from us as they have no staff either. Where i live the council turn the street lights of at midnight , we got called to a chest pain which is 2 minutes from my house it took 3 minutes to find the number in the dark and the ambulance crew drove past the end of the road twice as we cant see in the dark. !!!!