Mandy Mathieson’s death in October 2010 led to sweeping changes in the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Relief technician Owen McLauchlan “chose” not to go to the 33-year-old’s aid after she took ill just “two minutes away” from his depot while he was on a break.
An ambulance crew from Grantown drove to Tomintoul to treat her – a journey which took 21 minutes.
Miss Mathieson, an accounts technician at the Cairngorms National Park Authority at Grantown, was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering a blood clot.
Mr McLauchlan was subsequently suspended from his job with the Scottish Ambulance Service.
In 2014, then health secretary Alex Neil announced that 150 new technicians – 58 of them stationed at ambulance depots across the north and north-east – would mean 999 calls were answered “timeously”.
The staffing increase announced three years ago was also designed to ensure crews get rest breaks during their shift, but can still attend emergency calls.
Paramedics say that, since then, it has been accepted practice for student technicians to be supervised at all times.
Training documents obtained by the Press and Journal state that employees still undertaking diploma courses in emergency care support are only to work under the auspices of a more skilled superior.