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Union launches industrial action with patients not to be charged if their ambulance is late
Ambulance officers in South Australia have launched industrial action over a resourcing brawl with the state government.
Key points:
- Patients won’t be charged where ambulances arrive later than medical timeframes
- The ambulance union says staff are overworked and ramping is a chronic problem
- The Government says these issues will not be fixed through more funding alone
Union members have agreed to stop charging patients for certain ambulance trips, starting this afternoon.
The secretary of the Ambulance Employees Association, Phil Palmer, said he believed the action could cost the state government “thousands” of dollars within the first 24 hours alone.
He said patients not seen by an ambulance within medically appropriate timeframes will not be…
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