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A major independent review into the state’s emergency rescue and retrieval service MedSTAR has revealed long-standing “cultural issues”, leadership problems and staff behaviour concerns, as well as highlighting issues with fatigue.
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The paramedics union says the $400,000 it spent highlighting the ramping and response time issues which played a key part of Labor’s state election campaign was “wholly justified”.
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An investigation is underway into two more deaths of patients following delays in ambulances arriving as health continues to dominate the final days of the election campaign, despite the Premier trying to turn attention to the state’s employment opportunities.
UPDATED | Ambulance crews will be whittled down to one paramedic and one non-emergency ambulance officer next week under “disaster measures” planned by the SA Ambulance Service to meet a surge in COVID-19 callouts, the paramedics union says.
The SA Ambulance Service is planning for “extreme demand surges” and “high levels of triple zero calls” once state borders reopen on Tuesday, with the State Government announcing it will recruit up to 100 university students as a “standby workforce” to drive ambulances.
EXCLUSIVE: After revealing a great-grandfather died from inhaling vomit after waiting hours for an ambulance, InDaily has learned an aged care resident deteriorated and died after going into cardiac arrest as staff repeatedly called for help and performed CPR during a 90-minute wait for paramedics to arrive.
EXCLUSIVE: The State Coroner will investigate the death of an 89-year-old man who waited hours for an ambulance, with his son – a nurse – believing he would still be alive if help didn’t take so long to arrive.
