Labor will sack Ambulance Vic board

Labor will immediately sack the Ambulance Victoria board if it wins government and send a long-running paramedics pay dispute to the industrial umpire.

Opposition Leader Daniel Andrews said the ambulance service's culture needed to change from the top, starting next week if Labor wins the election.

"I have lost all confidence in the board of Ambulance Victoria," Mr Andrews told reporters.

"If a Labor government is elected on Saturday, then it would be my expectation that each and every member of the Ambulance Victoria board would tender their resignations.

"If they refuse to do that, well, there are other steps, but I want this to be respectful."

Mr Andrews said the board had not supported paramedics and had instead attacked their rights and conditions.

Health Minister David Davis said sacking the board was bowing down to the Ambulance Employees Association.

"Daniel Andrews is seeking to hand over control of Ambulance Victoria to the unions," Mr Davis told reporters.

While Mr Andrews' plan to send the pay dispute to the Fair Work Commission got a big cheer from paramedics, Mr Davis said the union had rejected the same offer from the coalition.

"In the last week before the election (was called) the government supported Ambulance Victoria in making a clear offer that was identical to Labor's," Mr Davis said.

Mr Davis promised to recruit 150 extra ambulance officers on top of current paramedic numbers.

He said the coalition had recruited 679 paramedics in the past four years, the biggest surge in the ambulance service's history.

"Daniel Andrews has failed to announce any new paramedics whatsoever," Mr Davis said.

Labor announced $60 million to take paramedics' advice on how to improve ambulance response times, along with $20 million to build facilities for female paramedics and $20 million for extra complex patient vehicles.

Mr Andrews also guaranteed he would regularly release ambulance response time data.

The coalition promised $92.7 million to improve ambulance resources, services and stations, including new stations in regional Victoria and on Melbourne's fringe.

Ambulance union secretary Steve McGhie said Labor's plan to enhance employee welfare was overdue recognition of the toxic management culture.

"The ambulance service is in need of repair. This policy puts it on the right road," Mr McGhie said.