Adelaide patients spent the equivalent of 137 days stuck outside hospitals in ramped ambulances last month. The state government says it is making progress to reduce ambulance ramping, but concedes there's still a long way to go to meet its election promise.
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00:00 A federation of First Ministers calling on the Federal Government to fix the country's
00:07 GP shortage.
00:08 "If people are getting unnecessarily sicker because they can't get access to a GP, that
00:14 is bad for people.
00:16 But it also is bad for the hospital system."
00:18 In a sign SA hospitals are in a bad way, new data shows ambulances spent 3,290 hours, the
00:26 equivalent of 137 days, ramped in September.
00:31 That's down 11% from August, but an increase of about 20% since Labor was elected promising
00:38 to fix the ramping crisis.
00:40 "What we've seen over the course of the last five months is improvement on last year.
00:45 That's a good thing, but we're not claiming victory."
00:48 Ambulance ramping increased at the Lyall McEwen, Nolunga and Modbury hospitals last month compared
00:54 to August.
00:55 The Government says its election promise wasn't to reduce hours spent ramping, but to ensure
01:01 ambulances reach more patients on time.
01:04 "I think that every South Australian would be absolutely appalled by the way the Labor
01:08 Party has tried to shift the goalposts so transparently over the last few months."
01:14 "We've been very clear that our target is to get back to the priority two response times
01:21 of 2018 and yes, there is still some distance to go."
01:26 Last month, ambulances reached 59% of urgent priority two call-outs in metropolitan Adelaide
01:32 on time, up from 45% this time last year.
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