{"id":33315,"date":"2015-03-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/ambulance-association-worried-about-health-plan\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:00:00","slug":"ambulance-association-worried-about-health-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/ambulance-association-worried-about-health-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambos worried about health plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>Image | News Ltd.<\/h6>\n<h3>Paramedics raise concerns about plan to wind back some emergency depts.<\/h3>\n<p>We don\u2019t want to see a \u201cmobile ramping\u201d situation, Phil Palmer from the Ambulance Employees Association told FIVEAA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly haven\u2019t been convinced yet that the idea of downgrading some EDs and making some other \u2018centres of excellence\u2019 is effective,\u201d he told FIVEAA breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt may be, but this is an idea at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Palmer said he still hadn\u2019t seen any details about how ambulances would be resourced or whether extra training would be available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey haven\u2019t even yet, in their modeling, assigned what kind of acuity \u2013 how seriously ill a patient is \u2013 for these patients journeys,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN to the full interview here:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/195417025&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-mark-jane\/government-s-auto-scheme-needs-rethink\">GOVERNMENT&#8217;S AUTO SCHEME NEEDS RETHINK<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/negotiations-tough-but-worthwhile-says-keith-thomas\">TOUGH OVAL NEGOTIATIONS WORTHWHILE, SAYS POWER CEO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image | News Ltd. Paramedics raise concerns about plan to wind back some emergency depts. We don\u2019t want to see a \u201cmobile ramping\u201d situation, Phil Palmer from the Ambulance Employees Association told FIVEAA. \u201cWe certainly haven\u2019t been convinced yet that the idea of downgrading some EDs and making some other \u2018centres of excellence\u2019 is effective,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-33315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ambos worried about health plan - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/ambulance-association-worried-about-health-plan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambos worried about health plan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image | News Ltd. 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