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Firefighting volunteers are being sent out to help ambulances without specialist training or appropriate support and the jobs are taking a toll on their mental health, the chief of the South Australian Country Fire Service says.
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Premier Peter Malinauskas has set up a taskforce to consider whether firefighters could help relieve pressure on the state’s overstretched ambulance service, but union bosses say more training is needed for that to take place.
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Ambulance ramping has decreased over the past month, but patients still spent 3647 hours – the equivalent of 152 days – ramped outside the state’s overwhelmed hospitals during a month of record COVID-19 hospital admissions.
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The state’s ambulance service has cancelled “all internal training” and is contracting patient transfer work from the private sector to ease pressure on staff ahead of a forecasted peak in COVID-19 cases this week.
The federal government’s disability insurance agency says the problem of delayed hospital discharges for healthy NDIS clients “often involve issues outside of the NDIS”, after the South Australian Government criticised the agency for its “complex and lengthy processes”.
