00:02Another ramping record broken. 5,891 hours lost on the ramp in August, overtaking the
00:10previous peak in July last year by 25 hours. The state's health minister attributing the
00:17rise to ever-growing aged care demand.
00:20Aged care is a crisis. It is at crisis point.
00:23Blair Boyer says the number of people waiting in public hospitals for an aged care bed rose
00:29from 60 in October 2022 to 483 patients in August this year.
00:36The scariest thing about all of that is that the number of people over the age of 65 in
00:41our state across the next 30 years will double to about 440,000.
00:48Critics say it's not good enough.
00:50We're hearing excuses as to what the barriers are. They need to address those barriers.
00:55They've made the promise to actually fix ramping. We're not getting anywhere close.
00:59It's going from bad to worse under this government who went to the election just five years ago
01:05promising to fix it. And I just think it's an absolute sham.
01:08Coinciding with the new figures, a damning independent review into the state's health system was released
01:14today, alleging a culture of micromanaging within SA Health as well as a lack of system-wide planning
01:21and misalignment between priorities and performance measures.
01:25The government says it's committed to doing whatever it takes to improve the struggling system
01:30while pushing for more aged care support from the Commonwealth.
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