House of Assembly: Wednesday, June 19, 2024

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Ambulance Ramping

Ms PRATT (Frome) (16:18): My question is to the Minister for Health and Wellbeing. Can the minister inform the house, under the directive issued to local health networks on 7 June 2024 how many times has the chief executive officer been notified that a patient has been ramped for more than three hours?

The Hon. C.J. PICTON (Kaurna—Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (16:18): The member is referring to a protocol which, as part of the incident management response that is currently in place, the incident commander has asked that if there are any incidents in which a patient has been ramped for more than three hours then that would be notified to the chief executive of the local health network in that area. In terms of the exact number of times that that has happened, I will have to take that on notice.