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July 31, 2020 Ambulances are again ramping at major hospitals as clogged EDs leave patients and medical staff in crowded corridors, making social distancing “impossible” according to the union....

April 28, 2020 Frontline workers are getting attacked hundreds of times a year – and the unions representing them are pushing for permanently stronger penalties.....

March 26, 2020 > NSW Paramedics have called on leaders to call a state of emergency to free-up funds, amid extreme coronavirus pressures on the front line....

February 27, 2020 A man who allegedly fly-kicked a paramedic on Christmas Day showed up for his first court appearance – but not his second....

February 7, 2020 MITCH MOTT – A STRESSED and overworked senior paramedic has told the Employment Tribunal that trying to co-ordinate the ambulance service’s limited resources is so stressful the...

February 3, 2020 Paramedics in some country towns are suffering from severe exhaustion and fatigue because of a system which leaves them either working or on-call for 96 hours at a time....

February 2, 2020 Complaints about ambulance ramping, rosters and more will be on public show this week when the ambulance union takes its woes to court, warning “lives are at risk.”...

January 23, 2020 News laws to make it easier for emergency workers to claim support for post traumatic stress have been introduced to South Australia’s parliament....

January 16, 2020 Ramping figures are down, the service says, despite heatwaves and bushfires fuelling its busiest December on record — but the union says otherwise....

December 30, 2019 Chronic ramping has prompted the Ambulance Employees Association to take its case to the Employment Tribunal — the government says it is already working on it....

December 27, 2019 Paramedics spent thousands of hours waiting outside South Australian hospitals in just one month, leaked figures show, in some of the worst results on record....

December 19, 2019 Mental health experts will travel with ambulances to crisis cases in a bid to treat people on site instead of them ending up stuck in clogged EDs....

December 11, 2019 Damning data shows wait times for SA emergency departments are getting worse across almost every category – only one showed a good result....

December 5, 2019 The chronically overloaded Flinders Medical Centre will be partially relieved by a major upgrade at the Noarlunga Hospital. A major upgrade of services at Noarlunga Hospital is expected to...

December 3, 2019 Paramedics are enduring 12-hour shifts without adequate meal breaks – sometimes no break at all – and the Ambulance union has had enough.…....

November 18, 2019 People dying after being ramped in ambulances, hospital patients served cold food on disposable plates and allegations of corruption. SA’s health system is a disgrace, writes Caleb Bond....

November 18, 2019 The death of an elderly man outside hospital could have been prevented if he’d got imaging and surgery in time, the ambulance union claims – as pictures show another ward being closed....