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Latrobe Valley’s Times Improve in Best Ambulance Response Time in Nine Years

Ambulance Victoria attended a total of 66,225 time-critical Code 1 call-outs, up by more than 4,000 the year before.

By Portal Admin - 20th May 2018 - Back to News

Ambulance response times across Victoria are the best in nine years thanks to record Andrews Labor Government investment into our ambulance services.

Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Jill Hennessy today released the Victorian Health Services and Ambulance Victoria Performance Data for the March quarter, which also showed improved ambulance turnaround times in hospital emergency departments in the past three months, after the pressure at the end of one of our worst flu seasons.

In the January to March quarter, the data shows Ambulance Victoria attended a total of 66,225 time-critical Code 1 call-outs, up by more than 4,000 the year before.

In the City of Latrobe, we are seeing significant improvement, with 78.1 per cent of ambulances now arriving within 15 minutes for Code One emergencies, up from 74.4 per cent compared to a year earlier.

This means the average time for an ambulance to reach the scene of a Code One emergency in Latrobe over the same period has improved from 12:38 minutes to 11:45.

Despite the increased demand, ambulances across the state were arriving at the scene of life-threatening emergencies in an average of 11:21 minutes – an improvement of 41 seconds from a year earlier – and 1:44 minutes faster than the Liberals’ last March quarter.

Across Victoria, our paramedics are reaching emergencies within the benchmark 15 minutes, 83 per cent of the time – up from 80 per cent a year earlier and 75 per cent from when the Liberals were in Government – when ambulance response times blew out to the worst on the mainland.

Our record investment, reforms and respect for paramedics are ensuring the most critical patients are getting the care they need sooner, and lives are being saved.

Ambulance Victoria’s revised Clinical Response Model was introduced in 2016 to ensure 000 callers receive a response appropriate to their needs, and to improve the availability of emergency ambulances to respond to life-threatening emergencies.

In addition, our performance data also shows our hospitals are recovering from one of our worst flu seasons on record.

Last quarter hospitals experienced record emergency department presentations, record hospital admissions and a record number of patients receiving elective surgeries when compared to any other March quarter on record.

Latrobe Regional Hospital was part of the increased activity. The hospital:

• Admitted 9,261 patients in the 3 months to the end of March – up from 8,725 admissions in the same period a year earlier.
• Admitted 3,142 emergency patients in the 3 months to the end of March – up from 2,669 emergency admissions a year earlier.
• Saw 9,073 patients who presented to the emergency department in the 3 months to the end of March – up from 8,312 presentations a year earlier.

Source: http://gippsland.com/

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