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  1. How grief and anger made Jeff Tougher a frontline advocate
    By Kelly Fuller

    Surrounded by a community dressed in yellow, Jeff and Jill Tougher are building a joyful legacy for their son while carrying the private toll of a campaign for greater protection of frontline workers.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-15/ste

    #AmbulanceService #Laws #StateandTerritoryParliament #KellyFuller

  2. Cost of SA's aged care 'crisis' revealed as stranded patients wait for beds
    By Stephanie Richards

    The South Australian Government spent more than $123 million last year on patients stranded in hospital waiting for aged care beds.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-12/sa-

    #AgedCare #PublicHealth #AmbulanceService #HealthPolicy #StateandTerritoryParliament #StephanieRichards

  3. Six-day RFDS wait for boy with a shattered kneecap
    By Nadia Mitsopoulos and Amy Rossbach

    Ten-year-old Noah Ross has spent six days in Karratha hospital waiting for an RFDS flight to Perth for urgent specialist care.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/chi

    #PublicHealth #Government #RegionalCommunities #AmbulanceService #NadiaMitsopoulos #AmyRossbach

  4. Six-day medical transfer wait for boy with shattered kneecap
    By Nadia Mitsopoulos and Amy Rossbach

    Ten-year-old Noah Ross has spent six days in Karratha hospital waiting for an RFDS flight to Perth for urgent specialist care.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-08/chi

    #PublicHealth #Government #RegionalCommunities #AmbulanceService #NadiaMitsopoulos #AmyRossbach

  5. Man with broken hip waits for hours at RFDS base before hospital admission
    By Jordanna Schriever and James Wakelin

    A Mount Gambier man says he spent hours waiting in agony with a broken hip at a Royal Flying Doctors Service facility and outside a hospital before he was eventually admitted for major surgery.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-07/pat

    #AmbulanceService #PublicHealth #HealthPolicy #StateandTerritoryGovernment #JordannaSchriever #JamesWakelin

  6. Coroner finds long ambulance wait contributed to two Darwin deaths
    By Jason Walls

    The NT coroner has found ambulance delays as a result of soaring demand for the service contributed to the deaths of two patients in January and February this year.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-04/st-

    #AmbulanceService #Laws #Health #Courts #JasonWalls

  7. Health system 'deteriorated' under current SA government, review finds
    By Stephanie Richards and Daniel Keane

    South Australia's public health system has "deteriorated" under the current government, according to an independent review tabled in the state's parliament on the same day that ambulance ramping was revealed to have hit a record high.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-03/amb

    #AmbulanceService #HealthPolicy #StateandTerritoryGovernment #StephanieRichards #DanielKeane

  8. Suspended sentence, $100 fine for man's naked attack on country ambulance
    By Nicholas R Ward

    Brian Charles Parfitt avoids immediate further imprisonment over the incident, which caused thousands of dollars in damage and left paramedics traumatised.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-24/kal

    #Courts #Assault #AmbulanceService #MentalHealth #NicholasRWard

  9. Rescue helicopter contract in jeopardy after parliamentary inquiry
    By Genevieve Blandin de Chalain

    NSW Ambulance is being urged not extend contracts with Northern New South Wales Helicopter Rescue Services unless it is satisfied with ongoing workplace safety.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/nsw

    #HealthPolicy #AmbulanceService #StateandTerritoryGovernment #GenevieveBlandindeChalain

  10. Elderly woman dies after two-hour wait for Victorian ambulance

    The Ambulance Victoria service says it was under a period of significant demand when it received a Triple Zero call alerting it to the emergency.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-31/tri

    #AmbulanceService #EmergencyServices

  11. Ambulances arriving late to lower-priority patients, SA opposition says

    Data obtained by the South Australian opposition shows fewer ambulances are arriving on time to priority 3 and 4 patients.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-16/sa-

    #Health #PublicHealth #AmbulanceService

  12. North Midlands annual golf day rallies support for first aid
    By Joanna Prendergast and Richard Hudson

    The long wait for an ambulance in WA's Wheatbelt makes first aid critical, and these golfers are ensuring their community is well prepared.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/nor

    #AmbulanceService #RegionalCommunities #JoannaPrendergast #RichardHudson

  13. Four people found unresponsive in Mount Gambier home

    Police are investigating after four people were found "unresponsive" in a South Australian home earlier this morning.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-11/peo

    #AccidentsandEmergencyIncidents #AmbulanceService

  14. Telstra shares new details of possible outage death
    By Eugene Boisvert

    Telstra says it has no record of Triple Zero (000) calls made from phone numbers associated with the address of a person who later died in a South Australian regional hospital on Wednesday.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-07-10/tel

    #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #Police #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AmbulanceService #EugeneBoisvert

  15. Celebrating #112day2025 at bevuta IT!

    Today, February 11, Europe is acknowledging the vital role of the European emergency number 112.

    This common, joint service ensures that citizens have access to fast, efficient, and reliable emergency assistance, everywhere in Europe.

    #112day #emergencycall #emergencyresponse #emergencyservice #emergencycommunication #emergencyapp #emergencycallapp #firefighters #rescueservice #AmbulanceService #paramedics

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  16. @kityates How? The decision to give oxygen is based on an assessment of the patient's need. So do they expect paramedics to decide that some patients might be OK without it? Or some might die anyway so why waste it? Who decides? And if hospital staff dealing with that patient down the line think that their outcome was adversely affected by failure to give oxygen in the ambulance, who bears the guilt? #NHS #AmbulanceService

  17. Cerise thought a snake had bitten her. But another creepy critter was to blame Two women were admitted to an outback Queensland hospital for suspected snake bites in one night, but they were both bitten by something else. abc.net.au/news/2020-09-25/cen #Invertebrates-InsectsandArachnids #EmergencyIncidents #WeirdandWonderful #AmbulanceService #Accidents-Other #PestManagement #Entomology #Rainfall #Animals #Offbeat #People