Ambulance ramping at South Australian hospitals has dropped by almost half since October last year, the state government says.
The issue of ambulance response times and ramping outside emergency departments has been a key issue in the current state election campaign with Labor promising some big-spending initiatives to tackle the problem.
But Health Minister Stephen Wade said new figures showed 1522 care hours were lost at hospitals across the state in February, a 47 per cent drop from the ramping peak in October.
He said care hours lost had fallen steadily since October as the government's alternative care pathways, post-discharge opportunities, and a recent boost to bed capacity, all had a significant impact.
"The latest data is proof that we are making significant progress on reducing ramping in South Australia," Mr Wade said.
Labor has described ramping as a "crisis" and has promised to employ more ambulance officers, deploy more ambulances across the state and build new ambulance stations to tackle the issue.
South Australians go to the polls on March 19.
