Victoria's Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas has warned hospitals of 'consequences' if they fail to meet new performance benchmarks aimed at reducing ambulance ramping. The new standards target a 90% transfer of ambulance patients to emergency care within 40 minutes of arrival, with ambulances returning to service within 20 minutes. The government aims to improve ambulance response times and alleviate pressure on paramedics.
Victoria's Health Minister has warned the state's hospitals there"will be consequences" if they fail to meet new ambulance patient transfer benchmarks.Victoria’s Health Minister has warned hospitals there will be “consequences” if they fail to meet new performance benchmarks introduced to reduce the level of ambulance ramping.
But the latest statistics show that between October and December of 2024, just 68.5 per cent of ambulance patients were transferred within the 40-minute timeframe. “It's really clear that if we are to improve ambulance response times, if we are to end ramping, then we can't keep doing things the way we've always done them and expect for them to be change,” the Health Minister said on Tuesday.
Health Minister Mary-Anne Thomas said new emergency care standards would drive improvements across the system. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Luis Enrique Ascui Not only was this significantly below the statewide target of 85 per cent, it was also below the 67.3 per cent recorded from the same time in the previous year.
AMBULANCE RAMPING HOSPITAL PERFORMANCE EMERGENCY CARE RESPONSE TIMES VICTORIA
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