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.
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Government demands for arbitrary performance targets are contributing to ambulance delays, paramedic exhaustion
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Melbourne woman dies waiting more than six hours for ambulance
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A 32-year-old woman was found dead in her Caulfield North home 6½ hours after she called triple zero reporting numbness and feeling lightheaded.
Victorian Health Minister Martin Foley on Friday asked Ambulance Victoria and Safer Care Victoria to immediately investigate the death, which leading health groups described as a casualty of hospital emergency departments being overwhelmed.
Health Minister Martin Foley.
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Ambulance Union secretary Danny Hill said the incident highlighted the lack of ambulance availability, while the Australian Medical Associationâs emergency medicine specialist, Sarah Whitelaw, said health professionals feared more deaths if health system reforms were not fast-tracked.
Five-hour ambulance delays outside hospitals a âpublic health disasterâ
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Patients with heart attack symptoms and spinal injuries are being forced to wait in ambulances outside hospitals for as long as five hours in what paramedics and the Australian Medical Association have described as a deadly public health emergency.
A letter from a senior Ambulance Victoria executive, obtained by
The Age, and new figures reveal a health system under duress.
Ambulances have had to wait for hours outside Victorian hospitals.
Ambulance response times are at their worst since 2016-17 and Ambulance Victoria has instigated emergency protocols â where patients can be instructed to take taxis to hospital instead of waiting for ambulances â three times more this year than in the previous two years combined.