Wednesday’s nine-hour digital outage at public hospitals came hot on the heels of two deaths attributed to medical delays.
The latest report card shows a 20 per cent increase in the time ambulances spent ramping outside the state’s top 26 hospitals.
The health minister stepped in following a string of allegations that sexual assault victims had been turned away by emergency departments.
Queensland will offer expanded GP incentives and urge students to take up health careers as it grapples with national workforce shortages and surging demand.
A government agency ostensibly missed important details about a questionable casino partner. Who should investigate? The same agency,naturally.
The Queensland government already had extensive knowledge of a Queen’s Wharf Brisbane company’s links with Asian organised crime when it claimed media reports were “very concerning”.
The Health Minister says improved DNA testing procedures have already led to a murder and serious sexual assault cases being brought before the courts.
Treasurer Cameron Dick has joined other potential Labor leaders in brushing off questions amid backbench frustration while the premier is abroad.
The health minister,one of three senior Labor MPs seen as potential leaders,has sought to explain recent backbench concerns – and the premier’s holiday.
While the post-budget roadshow gave them a chance to spruik their goods,the government has had anything but a chance to take a breath over the mid-year break.
The government’s handling of $2.4 billion train building cost blowout,not proactively revealed by senior figures,has overshadowed the work of late.