After three months of declines, ramping is on the rise again in South Australia with more than three-thousand hours lost in November, while ambulance response times also worsened. The Opposition says Labor is failing on its election promises but the government is adamant it's making the investments needed to turn the health care system around.
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00:00Tucking in to some good news on health.
00:05A seven bed clinic dedicated to caring for older people
00:09set to open adjacent to the Lyall McEwen Hospital.
00:13My mum's having chemo, she's going to be in a really safe environment.
00:16But there was no tucking away the latest stats.
00:19Ambulance response times worsened in November
00:22with just 67% of Priority 1 cases seen on time
00:26while ramping increased by 8% last month
00:29with 3,224 hours lost.
00:32The Health Minister was looking for the silver linings.
00:35Compared to July, our ramping is now 42% down in South Australia
00:40which is a credit to all of our doctors and nurses
00:43and our teams who have been working so hard
00:45to build that extra capacity
00:47and make sure that patients can get the care that they need.
00:49The Opposition says Labor is failing its election commitment to fix ramping.
00:54We are continuing to see ramping deteriorate on their watch
00:59and today we've got a really disappointing result
01:02that they've now delivered 30 of the worst ramping results in our state's history.
01:07Once patients are through the doors and into an emergency department
01:11the latest snapshot on hospital care reveals
01:14in the last financial year at the RAH
01:16just 40% of patients triaged as emergency
01:20were seen on time within 10 minutes.
01:23At Flinders Medical Centre the figure was just 23%
01:26but that was an improvement from 15% the 12 months before
01:30and there was a similar improvement at the La McEwen.
01:33South Australia is the worst performing state in the entire nation
01:37and only one third of patients are seen
01:40within that clinically acceptable time frame.
01:42Chris Pickton says more hospital beds have come online
01:45since that reporting period and more are on the way.
01:48We're opening up more beds, we're hiring more doctors and nurses
01:52so we can free up the emergency departments and so other people can be seen.
01:56At the same time we're also opening services like this.
01:59They can't come soon enough for a health system under strain.