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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....

November 18, 2019 A patient has died after being ramped, the Ambulance Employees Association says – the third in three months....

October 29, 2019 SA Health has revealed a patient died after being stuck in an ambulance outside the RAH earlier this year – the second claimed ramping-related death in 12 months....

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.....

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...

September 19, 2019 Leaked data shows how many mental health patients are waiting more than a day to be treated – as the ambulance union warns ramping is worse than ever....

July 29, 2019 The Advertiser, 7_29_2019 (Carol Whitelock) LAST Sunday evening something terrifying happened at our house. We were watching TV when my husband suddenly started making strange gurgling...