Lives at risk, Vic paramedics say

VICTORIAN paramedics say emergency response times are blowing out and putting lives at risk.

The paramedics, who are in the middle of negotiating a new enterprise bargaining agreement with Ambulance Victoria, say Premier Denis Napthine's refusal to budge from the 2.5 per cent wage increase is fuelling a crisis in the ranks.

Ambulance Employees Australia state secretary Steve McGhie says the current offer amounts to a one dollar a week wage increase for paramedics and is insulting, considering how many lives they save.

"Emergency call takers and despatchers are in the eye of the storm of our worsening ambulance crisis. The crisis is right there on their computer screens every moment of every day," Mr McGhie said.

In March, the Productivity Commission revealed that average ambulance response times to Code 1 emergencies in Victoria had blown out to almost 19 minutes.

Some rural ambulance stations are seeing average response times as long as 30 minutes, and many patients across Melbourne and Victoria are being forced to wait hours for an ambulance.

"These communications staff point to a slew of incidents in which staff shortages have left patients waiting hours for an ambulance," Mr McGhie said.

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