Soldiers may have to drive ambulances if paramedics join nurses on strike

Emergency plans are being drawn up for the Army to help the NHS cope with potentially crippling strikes this winter.

Officials are preparing for the Military Aid to the Civil Authorities protocol to be activated if key services struggle to stay afloat during the walkouts.

As reports on the preparations emerged, a Cabinet minister stressed that there are no ‘immediate plans’ for Maca to be used and that the NHS is already shielded by its own ‘well-versed planning in place for all manner of disruption’. Maca’s protocol states it can only be used when a ‘civil authority lacks the capability to fulfil the task and it would be unreasonable or too expensive to expect one to be developed’.

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