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The continuing issue of ambulance ramping

Luke Grant

Ambulance ramping is still an issue within our community. Despite Health Minister Shannon Fentiman announcing a $764m investment to tackle ramping when she took over the portfolio last year, latest figures show 45.5 percent of patients were waiting beyond the 30-minute mark, with ambulances losing an average of 17 minutes per trip – two minutes higher than in the previous quarter. Lauren Hansford, daughter of Wayne Irving who died while in a ramped ambulance last year, calls in to share her thoughts on the lack of progress the government seems to have made and what more needs to be done.

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