Why is the ambulance service boss having to say sorry?
This Is Why
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson speaks to Sky correspondent Rachael Venables who has been leading the investigation into abuse patients and staff in the service have faced and what is being done to restore trust in those who care for us.
A spokesperson for NHS England said: “Any abuse or violence directed at NHS staff is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated, and the NHS is committed to tackling unwanted, inappropriate or harmful sexual behaviour in the workplace. We have recently introduced new national guidance and training that will help staff recognise, report and act on sexual misconduct at work to stamp out this awful behaviour.”
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| 1:12.2 | of the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives. You'll have seen before. Sky News, |
| 1:16.7 | Rachel Venables has been looking into allegations of sexual misconduct among paramedics |
| 1:20.8 | for the best part of a year now, and she joins us again on the podcast. Good to see you, Rachel. |
| 1:25.6 | Look, the apology. Who from and why? |
| 1:28.1 | So the apologies come from Jason Killens, who is the chief executive of the Welsh |
| 1:32.4 | Ambulance Service, but also more than that. And this was the capacity in which he was speaking to |
| 1:36.9 | us. He chairs the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives. And after a year now of our |
| 1:43.0 | investigation into sexual harassment and abuse and really deep-seated |
| 1:49.1 | misogyny in the ambulance service across the UK, we were able to get a sit-down interview with him |
| 1:54.7 | to put some of the allegations, to put the wider concerns to him. And effectively, he said sorry. |
| 2:01.5 | It's just not right. |
| 2:03.1 | We shouldn't have anyone having to leave their workplace |
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