Good grief. Here we go again. A patient died so it has to be somebody's fault. So, according to the story a solo tech pitches up on scene in 4 minutes. Excellent! 'A' cat response achieved. Box ticked. So what happened to the para back-up? Never mind about the para sitting back on station who probably knew nothing about the call (remember stand-down breaks are your own time: i.e. you're not technically employed by the service so you don't even have to be on station). Why didn't control send a full para crew? solo para? ecp? para manager? Remember this is an A cat chest pain: morphine and thrombolysis are a distinct possibility. Interestingly the report doesn't respond to the fact that the back up vehicle was a double tech crew. What happened to 1 para on every vehicle? And... who told the family that there was a para sitting around refusing to respond? Was this just an assumption by the family/reporter? As Tom says in the post there are just too many loose ends to this story, but of course it makes great headlines and stokes the ire of the chattering classes who see all public servants as parasites on society. P.S. funny that the politico says there has been no increase in funding for the ambulance services when Nu-Labor have been pumping in millions to meet the 8 minutes response target. Silly me; that's just for expensive useless I.T. systems, extra control staff and more response cars not more ambulances.