Two senior managers on the Scottish Ambulance Service have give up a camper van rent agency uncovered by the Sunday Mail.
We advised how main employees operated the “£8000-a-month facet hustle” from the identical constructing as their NHS headquarters at a time when the Military had been known as in to help 999 crews.
Billy Kinniburgh, an SAS head of planning and supply, and supervisor colleague Kevin Kelly have been each beforehand named on the Firms Home web site as individuals with “important management” over the agency.
Nevertheless, that standing was terminated final week and each have additionally resigned as administrators of the corporate.
We revealed in September how as much as seven key officers with the SAS have been working the enterprise at an govt workplace subsequent to Glasgow Airport – which additionally housed the NHS Covid testing hub the place they labored.
When our reporter posed as a potential buyer, SAS strategic operations supervisor Derek Loughery – who was not on shift on the time – confirmed us round a £69,000 VW Grand California van within the automotive park of the Inospace constructing.
Loughery can be not a director of the corporate.
Once we inquired about renting a van, Kinniburgh – who was awarded the Queen’s Ambulance Service Medal final 12 months for his work on the pandemic response – answered the corporate cellphone quantity and advised us we may view one the subsequent day.
He mentioned if we went forward with a £1100-a-week rental, the car may very well be picked up from the Inospace base with safe parking for our automotive on the website.
Following our revelations, SAS senior administration launched an investigation into the agency.
The company admitted they knew concerning the camper van agency however promised to hold out strict disciplinary motion if second-job work had been carried out on ambulance service time.
Opposition events demanded assurances that employees didn't have conflicts of curiosity. On the time, an emergency providers disaster had left an 86-year-old girl ready in agony for eight hours for an ambulance after breaking her hip, whereas there had been experiences of one other pensioner dying after a 40-hour wait.
An SAS spokesman mentioned: “Camper Vans Scotland Ltd is an unbiased firm registered with Firms Home, just isn't linked to SAS in any method, neither is it positioned on SAS property.
“Any points are a matter for Camper Vans Scotland.”
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