Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 62546

Ambulance Services: Medals

Tabled: 25 June 2025

Answered: 3 July 2025

Question

Pete Wishart

Scottish National Party — Perth and Kinross-shire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason paramedics employed by air ambulance charities are excluded from eligibility for the Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal; and if his Department

Answer

Karin Smyth

Employees of air ambulance charities and independent ambulance services are not eligible for the Ambulance Service (Emergency Duties) Long Service and Good Conduct Medal as they are not employed by the National Health Service or an NHS foundation trust. T...

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