Plan to Ease Ambulance Ramping Unveiled After Deaths

Crisis talks have led to Queensland Health adopting a five-point, $20 million (US$13.1 million) plan to address ambulance ramping after two people died in as many days. Emergency department bosses came together on Nov. 24 to discuss ways to support staff, with the latest ambulance data revealing patients had waited almost 10 hours for a hospital bed. Health Minister Shannon Fentiman called the meeting barely a week after grandfather Wayne Irving, 67, died following a three-hour wait in an ambulance outside Ipswich Hospital, west of Brisbane. The next day Cath Groom was found dead in her Brisbane home by family on what would have been her 52nd birthday after paramedics failed to arrive the previous evening....