New data shows the hours lost while ambulances were ramped outside South Australian hospitals has reached the worst level in 18 months.The number of hours ambulances spent ramped has quadrupled over 12 monthsThe data, released by SA Ambulance Service, shows patients and crews spent 2,281 hours ramped last month alone.
He said ramping and long waits for ambulances had also been experienced in Queensland, Western Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales. "We are continuing to roll out the state's record health spend which is upgrading every metropolitan hospital and expanding almost every metropolitan hospital emergency department, as well as several peri-urban EDs," he said.
Why is this a current news item, when we’re looking at what’s occurred in the past. Is this ammunition for someone exploit. What do you hope achieve?
Obviously, the health black hole budget is being rorted and will need a further hundred thousand trillion million dollars injected into it _ probably with no improvement _ just rich administrators
So Victoria is not alone? WA, QL, SA & Tas have all reported ramping problems this year.
Why does the SA gov believe providing extra ambulances will solve this issue. More ambulances will just bring more people to over full hospitals. Adelaide needs a new tertiary hospital and services that adequately support less acutely ill people stay at home with GP monitoring.
We’re ready for the COVID surge!
Anyone who thinks we would be okay in a modern country like Australia if we had a serious Covid outbreak is NOT paying attention.
Possibly would have been worth defining what ramping actually is in the article.
Either the writer of this article is 14, OR, the writer is ignorant enough to think that most outside the industry would know what 'ramping' is. Do better, , I'm paying for this.
FFS Marshall, where's the action on this? Why is the problem getting worse and not better?
What and where?