Ambulance ramping fell slightly in April but still remains stubbornly high for a state government that came in with an election promise to fix it. The government is hoping ramping will continue to improve further as it invests heavily in schemes to improve the health system like an Adelaide hotel being used to support patients who do not need to be in a hospital.
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00:0080 patients like Ashley have now spent less time in hospitals and more time at this hotel.
00:09It's a perfect spot for I think the transition that I'm into at the moment.
00:14For the past two months rooms at Pullman Adelaide have been used by patients who don't need acute care as part of a plan to free up hospital beds.
00:22It's good for the patient, it's good for the health system overall and of course good for the budget too.
00:27While there have been such investments, ambulances spent 3,700 hours ramped last month down from 4,134 the month before.
00:38It's a drop but it's still a thousand hours up from when Labor took office in March 2022.
00:44There is 10 months left to the next election and it doesn't look like Peter Malinowskis' key promise to end the ramping crisis is going to end anytime soon.
00:53Despite its confidence investments are helping, the government says too many beds are tied up by patients who should be in aged care.
01:00Unless we see issues in aged care addressed they're just going to all get taken up by patients who are waiting for aged care.
01:06To address these critical issues the Australian Medical Association has held a round table in Adelaide.
01:12We need to be thinking of our whole healthcare system, investing appropriately and making sure we're meeting the needs of Australians today and into the future.
01:21It won't all be solved in one day but we really hope we'll agree on some clear direction.
01:26An early outcome, the state government has backed a pilot program to increase information sharing between GPs and aged care facilities.
01:35We're just going to be THE GPs and themaknael that.
01:38We've been on off so far.
01:39We've got a few videos and we're going to see who stay on at the right.
01:41We've started in the right now.
01:42We're waiting to get the end of the right now.
01:44We've got a lot of folks' tactic.
01:46We've got a lot of people who will agree on their own personal effects.
01:47We've got a lot of people who are waiting for us.
01:49We've got some basic questions and we've got a lot of people who do.
01:51We've got a lot of the things that we've made for our daily hours.
01:53We've got a lot of people who do and we've got a lot of people who are waiting for.