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.
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