The South Australian government is still struggling to reduce ambulance ramping with the latest figures revealing paramedics spent more then four thousand hours stuck outside hospitals in March. It comes as the Australian Medical Association launched a new traffic light system to better illustrate our nation's health care performance and SA has plenty of red lights.
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00:00A new traffic light system showing a lot of red in SA's hospitals.
00:07It's a website where you can enter your postcode and see how your local hospitals are performing.
00:13It's clear from that that South Australian hospitals are under pressure.
00:17Under the Australian Medical Association's new national system, hospitals earn a green smile
00:23if they reach the benchmark of treating 95% of patients on time.
00:27While if that number drops under 84%, they get a red sad face.
00:31Adelaide's hospitals scored smiles for the most urgent cases like resuscitation.
00:36But there's a large amount of red for other areas.
00:39I think right across the country you're seeing increasing pressure on emergency departments and on hospitals.
00:45Here we are seeing a huge investment.
00:48That investment though is still failing to bring down ramping at hospitals.
00:52New figures show ambulances spent a total of 4,134 hours waiting outside emergency departments in March.
01:00That's up 153 hours from February and still more than 1,400 hours higher than when Labor took office in March 2022.
01:09It doesn't matter who you speak to or which data you look at.
01:13Our health system is on its knees here in South Australia
01:16and I think the government's just got to make health a priority again.
01:19The minister says it already is with construction underway on new mental health beds for Flinders Medical Centre.
01:26We've got more beds to come.
01:28So there's much more work to happen in terms of making sure that we've got more beds for people to go into
01:34and construction projects like these are exactly what's needed.
01:37Extra beds seen as a key to remedying a sick system.