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Hospital emergency department waiting times listed live for the public

Hospital emergency times have been listed online for the public to view.

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Hospital and ambulance wait times can now be viewed in real time with the SA Health websites revealing the capacity and treatment status of  South Australian hospital’s.

The Emergency Department Dashboard website shows viewers how many ambulances are en-route to each hospital, how many people are waiting to be seen in each emergency department, how many people are already being attended to, and the capacity for each hospital.

The website also measures these real time figures against the capacity of the location and will display a colour to show viewers the current emergency situation.

  • Green is good to go.
  • Red is nearing capacity.
  • White is over capacity.

On any given day, it’s not unusual to see a code white before noon.

It’s no secret the healthcare system has received a flogging over the last few years with the COVID-19 pandemic making its way through the community; and the demand for health care assistance is not slowing down.

This insight into Adelaide’s emergency department highlights the waiting times and capacity limits hospitals across South Australia are experiencing and the impact this has on individuals seeking medical assistance.

The average waiting times indicate the time people seek medical assistance and how long they need to wait for ambulances which gives viewers an insight into ramping in Adelaide.

The Ambulance Service Dashboard website shows viewers how long the wait times for ambulances, coming from any given medical location, are for individuals seeking medical assistance.

General Secretary Ambulance Employees Association, Leah Watkins said there is a bottleneck in ED departments and its putting pressure on our ambulance services and the hospital staff.

“The concerning factor that this dashboard shows is how frequently your major hospitals are in code white statues, meaning that they have more patients in their Emergency Department (ED) than they have the capacity to see.

“Within the ED department there are a number of patients assessed and they either are treated and can be discharged or they require admission to a ward for further treatment.

“It is a frequent problem that patients who are identified as needing to be admitted to a ward do not have a ward bed available to them and do not have a ward bed for them to be moved to.

“They then stay in the emergency department taking up a bed.”

 

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