Paramedic stress: 'We're micro-managed by people checking response times'

Paramedics say demands on the ambulance service have increased over the past five years.Peter (not his real name) has been a paramedic with an NHS regional ambulance service in the south of England for almost 20 years.You end up putting things like that, which you have witnessed or dealt with, into a filing cabinet in your head, but over the course of a career that filing cabinet fills up.