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A flying marking contest at a football match at Lakes Entrance left one player waiting on the ground for an ambulance for two hours. Two off-duty paramedics eventually organised to pick up an unstaffed ambulance from the local station.

An expert tells a Victorian parliamentary inquiry it's "unclear" why broad vaccine mandates have remained in place when effective rules on masks have not, as another warns COVID-19 is on track to become one of the leading causes of death in Australia this year.

Surf lifesaving volunteers have already stopped working with Ambulance Victoria, and the ADF's involvement in its surge workforce will wrap up this month.

A small Victorian town is united in grief after beloved local paramedic Pauline Smith was killed in a two-car collision on the Western Highway.

Dozens of Victorian patients were left waiting for an ambulance overnight after the state's triple-zero dispatch system crashed.

Patients in metropolitan Melbourne were told not to call for a paramedic unless it was an emergency, as the response system was again put under strain overnight.

When Mark Stephens' wife suffered heart attack symptoms in the middle of the night, he knew he couldn't risk waiting for an ambulance to reach their regional Victorian home. Now they've packed up their house and moved closer to more reliable health services.

Victoria's beleaguered health system experienced record strain under the weight of the Omicron wave at the start of the year, fresh government data shows.

An injured climber has been winched to safety after falling in the Grampians National Park in Victoria's west last night.

Investigation launched by Ambulance Victoria and hospital in east Gippsland after man dies from cardiac arrest