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Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 245 asked in the Legislative Assembly on 7 April 2022 by Ms L. Mettam

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

AMBULANCE RAMPING

245. Ms L. METTAM to the Minister for Health:

I have a supplementary question. We were seeing over 2 000 hours of ramping before COVID in 2019.

The SPEAKER: Order! Member, you are starting with a statement; you need to ask a question.

Ms L. METTAM: Will the minister rule out taking over ambulance services from St John?

Ms A. SANDERSON replied:

This has absolutely nothing to do with ramping. We work closely with St John Ambulance. I have a very close family member employed by St John Ambulance as a paramedic. I am a full supporter of St John Ambulance and paramedics. If the member wants to understand where we are in comparison with other states and territories when they were at their peak, during the Delta outbreak in New South Wales only 60 per cent —

Several members interjected.

The SPEAKER: Order, please!

Ms A. SANDERSON: Only 60 per cent of patients were attended to within a 10-minute target at a status 3 alert. Last Tuesday, Victoria had to issue a code red and people who called 000 were asked to make their own way to hospital. Victoria is not in its surge now. We are in our surge now and our system is holding up. In Queensland, there are 500 hours of ramping a day. I can confirm to the house that we are currently negotiating the St John Ambulance contract.