❓ This parliamentary question seeks clarification on the definition of ambulance ramping used by the WA Department of Health for data collection, and whether this definition has changed recently. The answer confirms the definition and states that it has not changed in the past 12 months.
AnsweredQoN 1019Legislative Assembly
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(1) What is the current definition of ambulance ramping for the purposes of data collection for the Western Australian Department of Health? (2) Has the definition of ambulance ramping changed in the past 12 months: (a) if yes to (2), when was the change made; and (b) if yes to (2), what was the definition it replaced?
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Answered
10 September 2013
Responded by
Minister for Health
Response time
28 days
(1) Ambulance ramping time is the length of time in excess of 20 minutes that St John Ambulance Australia (SJAA) ambulances wait at a given hospital(s) Emergency Department(s) (ED) from the arrival at ED until the ambulance is available to return to active service. (Note that a 20-minute component is excluded from the count of total current contracted time to allow for time needed for moving the patient to ED, standard cleaning and restocking).
(2) No.
(a-b) Not applicable.
(2) No.
(a-b) Not applicable.
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