The Australian Labor Party has promised to partner with the South Australian Labor government to expand Adelaide’s health capacity to tackle the city’s ambulance ramping crisis if elected in the upcoming May 21 federal election.
Under the partnership, a $400 million (US$283 million) expansion of Flinders Medical Centre, with 160 new beds for the south of Adelaide, 136 at the medical centre and a further 24 at the Repat Hospital.
These expansions are expected to reduce hospital admittance obstacles by providing the space for patients to move out of the emergency department (ED) quickly and minimising the likelihood of ramping.
Ambulance ramping is the term used when patients spend more than 30 minutes waiting in the back of an ambulance outside a hospital due to full EDs.
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