Just days out from the Black by-election the State Government has revealed a drop in ambulance ramping outside South Australian Emergency Departments. But the Premier and Health Minister are keen to hose down any suggestions the government is claiming victory and insist there is more work to do.
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00:00Bedside at Flinders Medical Centre.
00:09The Premier and Health Minister meeting patients and hospital staff with news to spruik about
00:14the latest ambulance ramping figures.
00:16These are genuine improvements that are showing that there is signs of hope.
00:21October statistics showing another month-on-month decrease with ramping dropping below 3,000
00:27hours for the first time since June 2023, and well down on the record high in July this
00:33year.
00:34I want members of the media to take note, the records show this is not the South Australian
00:40Government claiming victory.
00:42We know there is a long way to go.
00:43Flinders was chosen as the backdrop for the announcement.
00:46Not only is work on its near half a billion dollar upgrade underway, it's the closest
00:51major hospital to the seat of black, where pre-poll voters are already choosing a replacement
00:56for former Liberal leader David Spears.
00:59Chris Picton standing by the timing and location of the latest ramping update.
01:04We have been consistently releasing these figures in the first half of every month.
01:08I've consistently stood and given a press conference and answered everybody's questions
01:13about these.
01:14Earlier in the day the opposition was demanding for the stats to be released.
01:18Now Labor came in on a mandate that they would fix the ramping crisis, but despite that we
01:23know that the Labor Party has delivered some of the worst months of ramping in the state's
01:27history.
01:28Results the state government hopes to have confined to history.