Fleurieu Peninsula left stranded with no local ambulances available at 8.30pm on 16/10/2019

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Fleurieu Peninsula left stranded with no local ambulances available at 8.30pm on 16/10/2019

October 23, 2019 If you were on the Fleurieu with a medical emergency at 8.30pm on Wednesday, October 16, it could have been a long wait for help. According to the Ambulance Employees Association (AEA)...

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ABC Phil Palmer 17-10-2019

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Government Forced to Back Off on Tribunal Orders

October 11, 2019 Last week Treasurer Lucas was gloating that his Government had succeeded in getting orders against the Ambulance Employees’ Association (AEA) about the issue of ambos putting their name...

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SA Health cuts 60 hospital beds amid overcrowding crisis

October 11, 2019 South Australia’s health department will cut 60 beds from its Central Adelaide Health Network amid record ambulance ramping and an ongoing overcrowding crisis. Thirty-two beds will be...

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BEDS CLOSED: 60 hospital beds will close and more doctors and nurses will be made redundant

October 11, 2019 BEDS CLOSED: 60 hospital beds will close and more doctors and nurses will be made redundant as the State Government tries to fix its ailing health budget. Although ambulance ramping at...

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Overtime is “Voluntary”

October 4, 2019 Channel 7 Media interview AEA Office 04-10-2019...

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Ambulances spent 2303 hours ramped outside Adelaide hospitals last month

October 4, 2019 Patients were forced to wait in ambulances outside Adelaide’s crowded public hospital emergency departments for a staggering 2303 hours in September – the worst ramping figures in the...

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Ambos’ Union Slam Government Beat Up over Public Holiday ‘Patient Safety’ Risks

October 4, 2019 The Ambulance Employees’ Association has attacked the Treasurer for public comments claiming that due to a number of ambos preferring not to come to work on their days off there is some...

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FIVEaa Radio – Leon Byner – Phil Palmer on Paramedics and Overtime

October 3, 2019 Interview starts at 01:32...

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ABC Radio – Ali Clarke & David Bevan – Phil Palmer on Paramedics and Overtime

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Roo & Ditts – Phil Palmer on Paramedics and Overtime

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SA ambulance officers to work on public holiday Monday amid overtime dispute

October 3, 2019 Ambulance officers will cover the upcoming Labour Day public holiday – but a dispute on overtime work remains.   Adelaide Now Subscribers Click on the link below.....

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Safe Staffing = Safe Community

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Elderly woman dies after ramped for more than an hour in ambulance at Flinders Medical Centre carpark

September 20, 2019 An elderly woman taken to Flinders with a non-life-threatening condition died after her ambulance was ramped for more than an hour because of overcrowding, the union says.   Adelaide Now...

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