Ambulance patient transfers
Hospital emergency departments provide urgent care for seriously ill and injured Victorians. The emergency department is the destination for patients arriving at hospital via ambulance.
Tap the buttons below for specific data about the number of patients arriving at hospitals by ambulance and transfer times from ambulance to the emergency department. You can filter by hospital.
Scroll down further for more information about the data (measures).
About the data
The above measures look at:
- patients transported by ambulance
- median transfer time
- percentage of patient transfers within 40 minutes.
About patients transported by ambulance
The total number of all patients arriving at an emergency department via ambulance.
Data excludes non-emergency patient transports.
About patient transfer time
The total time in minutes that it takes from when an ambulance arrives at an emergency department, to the time the patient is transferred to the hospital and handover is complete.
All transfer times are calculated from shortest to longest, and the time that sits in the middle is the median transfer time. The median transfer time is the time in which half of patient transfers were completed.
The 2023-24 and 2024–25 statewide targets for the percentage of patients transfers within 40 minutes have not been finalised.
Data excludes non-emergency patient transports.
Notes
- Data source: Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset (VEMD). Data extracted on 16 October 2024
- Victorian Virtual Emergency Department (VVED) presentations have been excluded from the calculation of all emergency indicators
- Data on ambulance patient transfers are not reported for Albury prior to 2024-25
- Results for the current financial year are preliminary and may change from quarter to quarter, final results will be available in November. Results from the previous financial year have been finalised
- Care needs to be taken when assessing results and comparing them to prior periods
- * No results are available.