Ambulance Employees Association

Sunday, September 27

Wade hints at changes to RAH emergency department

Health Minister Stephen Wade has hinted that a reconfiguration of the Royal Adelaide Hospital’s emergency department and ambulance bay may be necessary following “rampant” ambulance ramping.

Non-urgent ambulance pick-ups scrapped as hospitals crisis escalates

Ambulances will attend only “urgent” cases, all non-elective surgeries will be postponed and some patients admitted directly to hospital wards – bypassing Emergency Departments – as the government today struggles to cope with the state’s clogged health system.

SA's "Ambus" ferries patients from the old to the new Royal Adelaide Hospital today. The ambulance workers' union says it's close to negotiating an exemption to the Government's Return To Work provisions. Photo: Tony Lewis / InDaily

Govt poised for widespread exemptions on workers' comp

The Weatherill Government is exploring a legal mechanism to allow workers’ compensation exemptions for frontline workers not covered by enterprise bargaining agreements, as it seeks to wind back contentious provisions of its Return To Work regime for all “first responders”.

Ambos threaten overtime ban in funding row

The ambulance union has threatened industrial action over deteriorating ambulance availability and working conditions, demanding SA Health inject a Transforming Health funding boost earlier than planned.