The Ambulance Employees Association (AEA) of South Australia is the union representing ambulance employees since 1981. Auth Paul Ekkelboom, Secretary AEASA.
13 Hindmarsh Pl, Hindmarsh SA
Joined September 2010
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🚑 AEA Releases Position Statement on Ramping
Ramping is a policy choice, not an inevitability.
The AEA is calling for action to eliminate ramping.
Ramping is preventable, dangerous and unacceptable.
📄aeasa.com.au
Major incident declared today as ramping leaves 80+ patients waiting for an ambulance. One of our worst winters on record. Ramping needs sustainable solutions, not band-aids. – at Adelaide, South Australia
The AEA is deeply concerned by the Government’s public sector employment freeze and its impact on SAAS support roles.
Triple Zero call takers, mechanics, rostering, training, ICT, wellbeing and admin support are not optional.
Ambulance services do not run on clinicians alone.
Whilst ramping decreased last month this still saw nearly 3,000 hrs lost. This is the RAH today (12/11). There must be further improvements to flow, mental health and off-load procedures on top of additional beds to ensure ambulances are free to respond to the community.
Last night SAAS declared OPSTAT White with up to 54 ambulances ramped across Adelaide, 17 ramped at FMC alone, some for over 7 hours.
Despite this risk to our community, SA Health is set to end the Statewide Code Yellow tomorrow, despite our calls for it to continue.
Ambulance Employees Association (SA) retweeted
The ambulance union is demanding SA Health enforce its own policy on ramping.
Read more 👉 bit.ly/3SFABgp
Ambulances spent a new record of more than 5500 hours ramped outside Adelaide hospitals in July. indaily.com.au/news/2024/08/…
In July ambulances spent over 5,550hrs stuck on hospital ramps, the worst ever on record. This is completely unacceptable & must be a moment for the Government to stop & reassess all actions they are taking to fix ramping. Full release at aeasa.com.au.
Ambulance Employees Association (SA) retweeted
It’s an exciting day for the community as we cut the ribbon on Norwood’s first-ever, purpose-built ambulance station.
Ambulance Employees Association (SA) retweeted
This is the fifth new or rebuilt ambulance station to open since we came into Government in 2022.
This new Norwood ambulance station addresses a critical coverage gap in the city fringe suburbs - which were diverting crews away from their local areas.
Today Norwood Station was officially opened by Premier Malinauskas & Minister Picton 🚑.
Norwood’s 24/7 crews will finally fill the massive ambulance blackspot in the eastern suburbs.
These ongoing investments are directly improving ambulance response times for our community.
‘An 83-year-old woman spent 12 hours waiting to be admitted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital overnight, with the ambulance union saying the level and duration of ramping has “reached levels that I’d never previously heard about”. indaily.com.au/news/2024/07/…
Woodville Station officially opened today 🚑🥳 housing a 24/7 crew & dedicated training facilities for Paramedic Interns.
It is the first of 5 additional stations to open across Adelaide bringing much needed capacity for SA Ambulance.
📷 Paramedics Brett, Karli, Liv & Matt
Ambulance Employees Association (SA) retweeted
SA government continues to invest in #health with a new #ambulance station and #hospital hub launch in Adelaide’s West - glamadelaide.com.au/new-ambu…
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Ambulance Employees Association (SA) retweeted
The State Government is committing an additional $58 million into the SA Ambulance Service to improve ambulance response times. 🚑
Read more >> hubs.la/Q02zy6Rf0 #adelaide #glamadelaide #southaustralia
Ambulance Employees Association (SA) retweeted
Two major Adelaide hospitals will be given fresh upgrades to urgently bring online more bed capacity.
The cash injection set to be a taste of a significant new record health spend as the government desperately works to fix the system. @ollie_haig #9News
More funding for 3 new ambulance stations, specialist telehealth paramedics and electronic records will improve patient care and ambulance response times. An additional 56 in-patient beds are welcome investments to improve patient flow and ramping.
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