Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Triple Zero Victoria

Georgie CROZIER (Southern Metropolitan) (14:46): Last Friday the coroner handed down the findings into the tragic death of Christina Lackmann, who died in 2021 following failures in the ambulance system and Triple Zero for her to be attended to. It took 7 hours for anyone to attend to Ms Lackmann, and as the coroner said in his findings, there were multiple systemic issues as a result of what occurred on that night in May of 2021. In his findings he said:

The public hospital system’s capacity to clear ambulance resources was also extremely challenged. On this evening, there were significant delays at Monash Medical Centre (Clayton), and the Royal Melbourne, St Vincent’s, Sunshine, Austin and Northern Hospitals. Health services have a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) to offload 90% of ambulance patients within 40 minutes of arrival at the hospital. On 21 April 2021 –

that is the night I am referring to –

this benchmark was achieved only 57.3% of the time.

Nothing has changed since that time. Just a couple of weeks ago a man in Blackburn rang 000 twice. He bled to death because no ambulances were available. Shame on Labor. Shame on this Allan Labor government for not fixing this very critical system.