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  <date date="2019-10-30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fourth Parliament, First Session (54-1)</sessionName>
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    <name>Question Time</name>
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      <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <heading>Ambulance Ramping</heading>
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      <talker role="member" id="4867" kind="question">
        <name>The Hon. T.T. NGO</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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          <question date="2019-10-30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-30T15:02:16" />
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          <by role="member" id="4867">The Hon. T.T. NGO (15:02):</by>  Further supplementary: have there been any other deaths that have occurred this year of patients who have been ramped and died after deteriorating while on the ambulance ramp? If so, what are the dates and times of those cases?</text>
      </talker>
      <talker role="member" id="3164" kind="answer">
        <name>The Hon. S.G. WADE</name>
        <house>Legislative Council</house>
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            <name>Minister for Health and Wellbeing</name>
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        <questions>
          <question date="2019-10-30">
            <name>Ambulance Ramping</name>
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        <startTime time="2019-10-30T15:02:37" />
        <text id="20191030a1449693815342a890000207">
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          <by role="member" id="3164">The Hon. S.G. WADE (Minister for Health and Wellbeing) (15:02):</by>  The honourable member persists in the underlying assumption that this death was as a result of ramping. What I am advised is that there were no causal findings made nor any recommendations made by the multidisciplinary investigating team that was specifically related to the patient's management. Of course, we constantly work to eliminate ambulance ramping because we want to have a timely response to people's needs. The unnecessary delays on the ambulance ramp are completely unacceptable, and we are continuing to drive to eliminate them.</text>
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