A man has died after he was forced to wait four hours for an ambulance after suffering a fall at his home in Melbourne's west, during what the paramedics’ union has described as a critical shortage. Victorian Ambulance Union secretary ...

Paramedics could play a bigger role in helping palliative care patients die at home under a proposed national framework, which would also ease pressure on emergency departments. Through consulting paramedics, palliative care doctors, peak bodies, carers with lived experiences, and ...