Paramedic did not realise woman was having a stroke

A paramedic who failed to recognise a woman was having a stroke in a petrol station car park has been thrown out of the profession. Paul Hawker drove his ambulance onto the forecourt of Sainsbury’s service station in Weymouth, Dorset, on 24 October 2019. As he went to pay, one of the sales assistants from the store told him the woman might be having a stroke in her car, the Health and Care Professions Tribunal Service (HCPTS) heard. She told…