00:00 With paper patients on display, the Premier pressed the flesh with paramedics.
00:07 "I don't know why they chose you!"
00:10 And spruiked the progress he says has been made reducing ambulance delays,
00:14 despite the number of hours lost to ramping at hospitals remaining near record highs.
00:20 "While there is a lot of work that needs to be done, a lot has been achieved
00:24 and South Australians deserve to know about it."
00:27 Peter Malinowskis and Health Minister Chris Picton once again pointing to ambulance response times.
00:33 Highest priority emergency calls should be seen within 8 minutes, 60% of the time.
00:40 CREWS exceeded that in January with 71% of jobs reached within that target.
00:45 It's a worse outcome than December, but the government says it's a major improvement on two years ago
00:52 when 47% of priority 1 calls were reached on time during the Omicron COVID wave in January 2022.
01:00 "We can see through the course of two years a very clear improvement
01:05 in terms of how many people are getting those ambulances on time."
01:08 While 65% of priority 2 cases were reached within target time in January,
01:14 an improvement on December, it remains short of the 90% goal set for urgent calls.
01:20 "Even with improvement, they're still much worse than they were
01:24 for the vast majority of the Marshall Liberal government's time in office."
01:27 While selling one set of stats, there's silence on the other.
01:31 The Ambulance Service is yet to respond to an ABC request for information
01:35 on the number of people who've died waiting for crews since the last state election.
01:41 "We believe we do have information that will answer some of the questions of the applicant.
01:46 We are keen to not deny the application that bases.
01:49 We're actually keen to try and work with the applicant to provide relevant information."
01:53 And it's not yet clear when it will be made public.
01:56 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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