Another great health success

One News reports:

The wait to admit ambulance patients is called ‘ramping’ and is seeing some ambulances parked up at hospital drop-off bays for more than an hour — frequently longer.

Things have to be bad when not even ambulances can get their patients into ED.

The latest data from 15 hospitals from Whangārei to Southland show that 3000 ramping hours were recorded in the first quarter of 2019.

That figure had jumped considerably by the last quarter of 2022, which showed ramping hours had risen to 9756.

So waiting time in ambulances has tripled in three years. Patients have spent a total of 407 days waiting in ambulances to even get into ED.