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.
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