Our priorities to deliver easier access to health services include:
- Driving-down ambulance ramping and healthcare waitlists
- Empowering local decision-making in health
- Providing more healthcare professionals through retention and attraction
- Building hospitals on-time and on-budget
- Improving hospital performance through real-time data
- Delivering better access to health services in regional Queensland
- Reopening maternity services in regional Queensland
Queenslanders deserve a world-class health system they can rely on, no matter where they live.
David Crisafulli
Leader of the Liberal National Party
Stephen’s Story
Stephen’s wife passed away in his arms, waiting for an ambulance to arrive.
Living just three minutes from his local hospital, when Stephen called an ambulance to help his wife, he didn’t expect to be left waiting for 20 minutes.
On the night in question, ambulances were in short supply, with extensive ramping outside the Emergency Department. When an ambulance was dispatched, it was sent to the wrong address, costing precious minutes.
Stephen says he feels let down by a broken health system. He is frustrated paramedics are spending their shifts sitting with patients on ambulance ramps, because there’s no room in Emergency Departments.
He is worried ambulance ramping is preventing paramedics from responding to life-threatening emergencies and wants the Government to finally prioritise fixing Queensland’s health crisis.
Our health system is broken. This Government isn’t prioritising the Queensland healthcare system and people are dying as a result.
Stephen
Less waiting, More Care
Queenslanders want to know the health system will be able to help them in their hour of need.
For too long we’ve seen the long lines of ambulances ramped at hospitals, waiting hours to get into the Emergency Department. It’s a clear sign of a health system in crisis, held together only by the sheer determination of our healthcare professionals.
Today, thousands of Queenslanders sit on surgery waiting lists, waiting for the life-saving or life-changing surgeries they need. These Queenslanders are not statistics. They are real people with harrowing stories. The tradie who can’t work and earn a living for her family while she waits for a knee reconstruction. The grandfather who can’t look after his grandkids because cataracts prevent him from driving. The child who is falling further behind at school while she waits for a hearing implant. These are not hypotheticals; they are the lived experiences of thousands of Queenslanders.
Then there are the babies born on highways because maternity services have been closed in regional areas. Parents should not be denied the opportunity to birth their baby in their local community when generations before them have done so.
A critical priority for Queenslanders is having a health system they can rely on, with services available in their local communities.
Health services have been in decay under this Labor Government because they’ve failed to plan, resource and run our health system. Their focus has been on announcements rather than delivering services.
An LNP Government will prioritise healing our health system by empowering Queensland’s frontline clinical staff to make the best decisions for the regions they serve. We will target investment to where it’s needed most and provide real-time data on the performance of hospitals, so Queenslanders can once again rely on our health system.
We will adopt world-class triaging to streamline care, allowing patients to receive healthcare quicker, and avoid potential complications from languishing on a waiting list.
New and innovative ways of delivering healthcare will provide Queenslanders with better health outcomes and improve what we can deliver with our current health resources.
An LNP Government will also ensure Queensland gets its fair share from Canberra. We will relentlessly pursue greater funding, regardless of which party is in power nationally.