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July 29, 2019 All metropolitan hospital emergency departments were treating more people than their capacity on Sunday, with waiting times exceeding two hours in the northern suburbs. Emergency...

July 22, 2019 The rate of post-traumatic stress disorder among our paramedics is skyrocketing, with a team of Adelaide researchers desperately trying to determine the cause — and what can be done to...

July 4, 2019 She’s been assaulted three times in her 20 years as a paramedic — now Amanda Martin has a message for SA’s MPs…...

May 28, 2019 Some patients are waiting more than 10 hours for an ambulance as paramedics battle to cope with a severe staff shortage, a union boss says. As the flu death toll continues to climb,...

February 19, 2019 An elderly woman was forced to wait eight hours in an ambulance in what paramedics have described as the worst case of ramping ever seen in South Australia. SA Ambulance Employees...

March 28, 2018 DELAIDE’S hospital system is continuing to buckle under the strain on Tuesday night as demand overwhelmed the system with more patients being treated than capacity across the city. But at...

September 12, 2017 EMERGENCY departments across the city — including the $2.3 billion Royal Adelaide Hospital — are chronically overcrowded, forcing unprecedented action to reduce pressure on the system,...

July 25, 2017 AMBULANCE officers have shelved threatened industrial action and will support the move to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital following a deal to set up a joint working party to address growing...

July 24, 2017 AMBULANCE officers are threatening industrial action amid claims at least two patients died after delays of more than 20 minutes because of chronic staff shortages. Late on Monday, the SA...

June 26, 2017 HEALTH Minister Jack Snelling has directed SA Health to fast-track an investigation into the death of a patient after an ambulance was delayed. It took 24 minutes for paramedics to attend a...

March 16, 2017 BODY-worn video cameras that would protect ambulance officers against drunk and drugged violent and abusive patients have been rejected by the State Government. The Advertiser can...

January 28, 2016 THE new Ambus ambulance bus able to treat up to 12 patients at a time is a waste of money and will have little use, the ambulance workers union believes. Ambulance Employees Association...

November 13, 2014 A PARAMEDIC stabbed in the leg while treating a patient at Port Augusta yesterday was only spared major injury by a notebook in her pants pocket that deflected the blade. The latest attack...

November 11, 2014 AMBULANCE officers fear country patients could face dangerously long emergency response times if a decline in volunteer numbers is not urgently reversed. The reduction of ambulance officers...

November 11, 2014 THE ambulance union has again called for greater protection from assaults after a Paralowie man received a suspended sentence for indecently touching a paramedic. The man, 25, pleaded...

April 22, 2013 PATIENTS can expect “free rides” more often if ramping issues at Flinders Medical Centre continue, the Ambulance Employees’ Association warns. Ambulance officers today...

December 18, 2012 AMBULANCE officers say up to eight ambulances at a time were waiting to deliver patients to the Flinders Medical Centre emergency department in the latest case of ramping last night. The...

December 13, 2012 THIRTEEN ambulances arrived at Flinders Medical Centre within two hours yesterday, leaving one patient waiting for 80 minutes before entering the emergency department. Ambulance Employees...

May 16, 2012 THE former head of emergency at Flinders Medical Centre told staff she quit because she could not guarantee ramping would stop. In a letter, Di King said she had been told by hospital...

September 21, 2011 A WOMAN suffering a miscarriage was stranded in an ambulance for two hours before being admitted to hospital. A PREGNANT woman suffering a miscarriage was stranded in an ambulance for more...