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A stoush has developed over response times for lower priority ambulance cases in SA. The State Opposition says it took a Freedom of Information application to get the data and the stats aren't good. But the government's refuting that, arguing the figures are publicly available and response times have improved across the board.

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00:02Every month the government releases ramping data and details how many ambulances reach the most serious priority one and two
00:10cases on time.
00:12The same is not done for priority three and priority four ambulance response times.
00:17When ambulances are supposed to arrive within 30 or 60 minutes.
00:21Earlier this month the government did release those figures for April 2026 comparing them to March 2022 when Labor was
00:30elected on a promise to fix the ramping crisis.
00:33The Liberals lodged an FOI that fills the gaps.
00:37What we're doing today is releasing every month of data for every priority category that we've been able to obtain
00:45under free information.
00:46Claiming the figures show most lower priority call outs aren't being met on time.
00:52The government's hit back arguing there's been an improvement in all areas since 2022.
00:58It says it has publicly released the figures but they're published in a different way to highest priority cases.
01:05Ambulances are turning up on time in life driven situations.
01:09Now obviously the ambulance service would want to turn up on time as often as they possibly can and they've
01:13got more resources than they've ever had before.
01:17Ramping is still higher than when Labor took office in March 2022.
01:21But priority one and two response times have improved.
01:25About 70% of priority one cases are seen within the designated eight minutes.
01:30Despite an improvement in priority three cases, only about one in three ambulances are turning up on time.
01:37It's because the most of the emphasis has been on priority ones and twos and rightfully so.
01:42The union wants to see more improvement on priority three responses.
01:46These cases do need to have the attention shown to them because it's not saying that their condition is not
01:52important.
01:53It is important. It's an urgent case.
01:54This month's ramping data is due out in August.
01:57This month's ramping data is due out in August.
01:57It's United.
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