Building a Bigger Health System

The Malinauskas Labor Government is pulling every lever we can to build a bigger health system and address ramping in our hospitals. When we came to government, the situation was dire with Priority 1 ambulances only arriving on time for 1 in 3 South Australians. Now, it’s more than 2 in 3!

We still have a lot of work to do, but we have come a very long way since being elected. The 2025-26 State Budget reaffirmed our commitment to building a bigger health system, with an additional $1.9 billion in funding, bringing our total investment in health to $9 billion over the past four years. Here’s what that means in real terms for our community:

• We’ve increased our commitment to deliver 300 new beds to over 600 new beds, including 132 mental health beds.

• We’ve employed almost 2,800 additional fulltime equivalent nurses doctors, ambos and allied health workers above attrition since our election in 2022. That’s five times more nurses and six times more doctors than we committed to during the 2022 state election.

• We’ve upgraded, rebuilt or newly built 24 ambulance stations and built a new SA Ambulance Service Operations Centre in Adelaide.