Victoria’s ambulance response times remained stubbornly long over the first three months of this year despite the billions of dollars the state government is pouring into the health system.
The latest data, to be released on Tuesday, will show it took more than 15 minutes for paramedics to treat one in three high-priority, code-one incidents between January and March.
The state government says this represents a 5 per cent improvement on the previous quarter. But paramedics responded to fewer cases compared with October to December 2022, when there were a record 100,234 code-one cases. Median emergency department waiting times are back to pre-pandemic levels, according to the government, at 18 minutes. That’s down from 20 minutes in the previous quarter.
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