Government demands for arbitrary performance targets are contributing to ambulance delays, paramedic exhaustion
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Ambulance union secretary Danny Hill linked the incident to a “busy night” and ambulance ramping, which leaves paramedic crews unable to respond to other issues because they’re waiting at hospital emergency departments for their current patient to be allocated a bed.
This is the baseline of our healthcare system. It was a problem before #covid. It’s still a problem now.
If we don’t vaccinate the nation and start funding our services properly we have a dark future ahead. https://t.co/4Yo61XHBof