Western Australia's major health unions have banded together after the state's ambulance ramping crisis reached a new unenviable record. Figures reveal ambulances spent more than 7-thousand hours ramped outside hospitals in September putting pressure on the state government to fix the problem.
00:00WA hospitals under increasing and relentless pressure.
00:06St John WA figures showing ambulances spent 7,257 hours ramped outside hospitals in September, an all-time record.
00:17The government quick to blame an ageing population and severe flu season.
00:22Clearly we're really disappointed to see the high figures that we've had again this month.
00:28It is important to remember it has been a very challenging winter, but of course it is also a sign that we need to do more.
00:36The opposition not convinced.
00:38September is not winter, yet they continue to blame everyone else and every other set of circumstances.
00:46It is an embarrassment for this government, they should be ashamed and they should be humiliated.
00:51It's the third consecutive month ambulance ramping has exceeded 7,000 hours.
00:57Workers voicing their frustration.
01:00It's the worst I've seen in 35 years and to be really honest, in my career it's the first time I've actually seriously questioned how long can I keep doing this.
01:07There's no hospital that's designed to accommodate ramped patients, so we do our best to provide privacy and dignity to our patients.
01:16WA's peak health unions including the Australian Medical Association spruiking their five point plan to relieve ramping pressure, including 400 aged care beds, guaranteed staffing and new emergency department diversion measures including making immunisation a priority.
01:34This is the entire hospital sector asking for an approach to tackling ramping and giving some solutions that are reasonable, that are common sense, that can be implemented.
01:44For the first time all four major health unions are joining forces to demand the state government do more to fix WA's ramping crisis.
01:53But the health minister says the government is doing everything it can to avoid a repeat of this winter.
01:59While the government's already planning for next flu season, the ramping crisis appears far from over.
02:06Let's turn over.
02:09Let's turn over.
02:12Let's самый power of this national health worker
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