{"id":2766,"date":"2024-07-05T19:01:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/ambulance-ramping-is-getting-worse-in-australia-heres-why-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T19:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T19:01:03","slug":"ambulance-ramping-is-getting-worse-in-australia-heres-why-and-what-we-can-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/ambulance-ramping-is-getting-worse-in-australia-heres-why-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambulance ramping is getting worse in Australia. Here\u2019s why\u2014and what we can do about it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen countless media reports in recent days, weeks and months about the ramping of ambulances at hospital emergency departments (EDs) around Australia. Ambulance ramping occurs when paramedics are made to wait at the hospital&#8217;s entrance and are unable to transfer their patient into the emergency department within an appropriate time frame\u2014defined as 30 minutes in South Australia. Ramping is an indicator of hospital stress. It means patients are waiting longer to receive care in the emergency department, and patients requiring inpatient care are waiting longer to access a hospital <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/ambulance-ramping-is-getting-worse-in-australia-heres-why-and-what-we-can-do-about-it\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen countless media reports in recent days, weeks and months about the ramping of ambulances at hospital emergency departments (EDs) around Australia. Ambulance ramping occurs when paramedics are made to wait at the hospital&#8217;s entrance and are unable to transfer their patient into the emergency department within an appropriate time frame\u2014defined as 30 minutes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}