Sky News studied documents from a handful of the 95 HPC misconduct hearings since 2005 that led to paramedics being struck off.
In the case of Grahame Giles, paramedic Brian Jewers had refused to follow a doctor’s telephone instruction to administer a potentially life-saving drug and failed to carry out two other vital procedures.
It sounds like a cover-up, it smells like a cover-up, and it really is acutely concerning that people can’t find out what’s going on, especially when it could be of such significance to them.
Mary-Ann Charles, solicitor from Shaw and Company in Newcastle