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The comments come after Sarah Hayes, a former senior call adviser for the hotline in the South West, said she had to speak out about overworked staff because she felt that the service was "unsafe".
Writing in the Daily Mail, Ms Hayes said: "I don't want more children put at risk like William was." She said there were "frequently" no on-call clinicians in the call centre, run by South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust, while "overworked" paramedics and nurses fell asleep on their shifts.
In Overworked and Overwhelmed, executive coach and leadership educator Scott Eblin offers another path.
But I also want good representation in Westminster.Val Baker Val Baker you've hit the nail on the head she wants less councillors and less MP's yet more AM's as they're overworked. So according to her, AM's need smaller constituencies, yet MP's who at present represent the same size constituency as the overworked AM's yet they've got to have bigger constituencies under her plan.
READING v WEST HAM TODAY, 3PM REFEREES struggle to officiate at their best during the festive period as they are overworked, reckons West Ham manager Sam Allardyce.
REFEREES struggle to officiate at their best during the festive period as they are overworked, according to West Ham manager Sam Allardyce.
OH please, you have to be joking: the Scottish sulker Andy Murray is threatening to go on strike over being overworked playing tennis (Daily Post, September 20).
This would result in the increased presence of overworked, fatigue-filled drivers on European roads "posing a threat to themselves and to innocent bystanders".
An overworked protein that causes yeast to age when it neglects one of its functions may also trigger ageing in mice.
"Overworked, Overwhelmed, & Underpaid: Simple Steps to Go From Stress to Success!" is a book focusing on these individuals who spend most of their life working, and when they aren't doing that, panicking over the work they failed to or need to do.
His speech included the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few...." The "few" to whom he was referring were the outnumbered, overworked, heroic pilots of the Royal Air Force (RAF) who were holding the vaunted German Luftwaffe at bay.
Everett Chalmers Regional Hospital announced that it will cease performing abortions because their obstetrics department is overworked and understaffed.