While 500 more paramedics are on their way to regional, rural and remote NSW – at a cost of $438.6 million – there’s no word on whether any will be placed in the Western Plains.
Additional paramedics will help improve ambulance response times for life threatening callouts and medical emergencies and therefore, improved patient outcomes and experiences.
Longer ambulance response times because of a lack of highly skilled paramedics, was an issue raised in the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry into Rural and Regional Healthcare and the announcement of the extra personnel has been welcomed…