Ambulance Ramping Continues to Rise in Southeast Queensland

Ambulance Ramping Continues to Rise in Southeast Queensland
Ambulances in Australia in a file photo. Tony Ashby/AFP/Getty Images
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By AAP
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Almost half of all patients waited more than half an hour in an ambulance before being admitted to a hospital in southeast Queensland in December.

Queensland Ambulance Service figures show ramping rose two percent to more than 46 percent of patients in the heavily-populated southeast between November and December 2021.