The car insurance of the guilty party should've paid out to the ambulance service (and, i think Fire & Rescue), Fimb. Management somewhat c*cked up across the country. With the A4C approaching, i am led to believe, all trusts were asked how much it was going to cost. Focusing on EMS,say, the figures were estimated around EMTs = band 4 and Paras = 5. Whilst many services have gone with this undervaluing their primary personnel quite a few other services have managed to get advanced EMTs in to band 5 which has thrown all their figures out of the window. And that's only one area where the figures have not added up. If the service bosses had calculated the figures correctly in the first place alot less corner-cutting and penalising would be going on now. Having said that, ALL the bosses of the UK services (ambulance trusts) should be marchin up to Westminster and telling that lot how it really is and not doffing their caps and tugging their forelocks. It's time our bosses sided with us and valued the people who work in the sector of why the ems ambulance service exists in the first place. Anyone else like to borrow my soap box? ;)