WA Ambulance Ramping Tops 5,100 Hours a Month, AMA Urges National Fix

Ramping is said to occur anytime an ambulance spends more than 30 minutes waiting outside a hospital for its patient to be admitted.

Ambulances arrive at St Vincent's Hospital in Sydney, Australia, on Dec. 28, 2021. Jenny Evans/Getty Images

A record level of “ramping” at some West Australian hospitals in June has led the Australian Medical Association (AMA) to call on all governments to sign up to a new national health reform agreement.

The AMA has called the situation a “logjam crisis” happening in all “corners of Australia.”