article_snippet.sent: Ambulance bosses are routinely making a 21,500-mile round trip to Australia to hire paramedics on £4,500
article_snippet.sent: Ambulance bosses are routinely making a 21,500-mile round trip to Australia to hire paramedics on £4,500 ‘golden hello’ payments .
article_snippet.sent: However, Australia has a surplus.
article_snippet.sent: As well as the 225 paramedics hired from Australia last month, London Ambulance Service hired 175 from there and New Zealand in September.
article_snippet.sent: Each trip to Australia costs the ambulance service £90,000 in flights and hotel bills, but Each trip to Australia return having hired on average 200 paramedics.
article_snippet.sent: Each trip to Australia are offered a £30,200 salary including London weighting.