South-Eastern Metropolitan Region
Ann-Marie HERMANS (South-Eastern Metropolitan) (12:48): (596) My constituency question is for the Minister for Health, and I ask: with the latest Ambulance Victoria performance figures showing code 1 incidents in Cardinia during July having an average response of 17 minutes and 20 seconds in call-out times across 1721 first responses, why are constituents in Cardinia still being disadvantaged in Ambulance Victoria’s 15-minute call-out time targets? During the July to September 2023 period, paramedics attended 50.8 per cent of code 1 incidents in Cardinia within the 15-minute target time, falling short of Ambulance Victoria’s target of 85 per cent. We know that figures released last year by the inspector-general for emergency management, IGEM, showed that the 33 deaths were linked between 1 December 2020 and 31 May 2022 to 000 or ambulance delays. Will the minister give an assurance that this is being addressed?