New information reveals ambulance response times have blown out under the Liberals over the last decade.
The average response times for urgent dispatches was 43 minutes in February 2014. This shot up to almost 66 minutes in October 2023 – an increase of over 50%.
The response times for emergency dispatches shot up 27.9 per cent over the period, from 14.7 minutes to 18.8 minutes in October 2023.
These figures are disgraceful. The length of time Tasmanians are waiting for an ambulance in sometimes life or death situations have blown out under the Liberals.
ED ramping, people dying on waitlists and ambulance response time figures are out of control and Tasmanians are suffering.
And what have the Liberals promised to do to change this trajectory?
Jeremy Rockliff announced that he’ll “ban ramping”, showing the Liberals are completely out of ideas after 10 years in office and have no serious ideas to improve Tasmania’s health system, which is in the worst shape it has ever been.
If the Liberals haven’t come up with any serious ideas after 10 years, they never will.
If elected, a new Labor Government would tackle wait times by employing 88 more paramedics by mid 2025, creating 8 new community paramedic hubs around the state and upgrading infrastructure and vehicles, so that the people who take care of us, have the equipment necessary to do so.
Anita Dow MP
Shadow Health Minister
