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Ambicare Victoria no more
« on: February 23, 2011, 09:56:46 PM »
I have been informed by a friend that Ambicare in Victoria is now in receivership as of Monday just gone. Staff were notified on Monday when the rocked up to work and were told they have no job.

 :-o Ambicare: Ballarat jobs lost
23 Feb, 2011 09:27 AM
BALLARAT workers at patient transfer company Ambicare are reeling after losing their jobs this week.
On Monday, employees at the Ballarat branch of the Horsham-based company were told the business had gone into liquidation.

Patient transport officer Peter Butcher said workers at the company were devastated.

Mr Butcher said he received a phone call on Sunday followed by a text message that evening saying the company would hold a meeting at 11am on Monday.

When we arrived at the shed, the liquidators were there and said the company was finished,he

said. We were devastated. We all have mortgages and bills to pay.

The company provides non-emergency patient transfers. Ambicare operated out of sites in Ballarat, Horsham, Bendigo, Hamilton and Mildura.

Earlier this week the company appointed Pitcher Partners to manage the liquidation process.

Pitcher Partners partner David Vasudevan said up to 50 staff across Victoria would be affected by Ambicare's closure.

“The decision was made by the director to call us in,” he said. “In this particular instance unfortunately there’s no other option but to stop trading.”

“We’re looking at all angles but clearly a drop in revenue was a major impact in the company’s demise.”

He said it could be up to eight weeks before employees receive their entitlements.

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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2011, 07:52:26 AM »
Nothing really interesting here. Its just business.

Just like any commercial operation (medical or not) its all about supply and demand and winning tenders.
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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2011, 10:11:11 AM »
It turns out that they were mainly contracted by RAV to service NEPT for them, but they then cancelled the contract and dumped the work back on RAV crews in country Victoria according to my sources. :roll:

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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #3 on: February 24, 2011, 10:01:23 PM »

Likewise there are many companies who if they loose just a few key contracts would be broke and out of business too.

All the more reason to have a good business model spread across a large number of clients and keep customer service and staff satisfaction as your key elements Really isn't it?

But we wouldn't expect public servants to understand that model.......

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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #4 on: February 24, 2011, 11:29:23 PM »
I agree with what you are saying that they should have gone into other areas and serviced them as well. The state service is not the be all and end all as they could just pull the rug from under them as what they have just done. Typical government.

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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2011, 05:43:31 AM »
Where there not other problems with this company and one of owners ???? Or was that another company in Victoria???

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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2011, 09:30:14 AM »
am not sure, but the powers to be decided to dump the NEPTS onto the emerg crew in Ballarat for a start so that would end up taking them out of town and leave it uncovered. filtered idiot politicians. :x

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« Reply #7 on: September 01, 2011, 10:16:40 AM »
It appears Total Care Patient Transport is another Victorian company in trouble. ASIC records show the following. And yes they do work for Ambulance Victoria also.

01/07/2011 027588320  1 519G Notification of Application to Wind Up Company Under S

This company also holds a license in SA and maybe the one that came saw and left SA.

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Re: Ambicare Victoria no more
« Reply #8 on: September 01, 2011, 03:47:05 PM »
 :? If they are closing down why is there an ad for jobs going there.

 

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