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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
Health
Damon Cronshaw

YOU WONT BELIEVE: Eight hour wait hunter ambulance ramping crisis - What They Never Told You

Ambulance resources in the Hunter are so stretched that "we sometimes struggle to get enough crews to help the sickest patients", paramedic Tim Hilliar says.

"That's even for cardiac arrests and heart attacks," said Mr Hilliar, a Hunter delegate for the Australian Paramedics Association NSW.

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