Queensland’s Health Crisis continues to worsen under Labor, with revelations patients were subject to ambulance ramping for longer than 7 hours across the first quarter of the year.
The revelations were exposed in a Question on Notice, showing Queensland’s chronic ambulance ramping continues to get worse the longer Labor’s in power.
Queensland has the worst ambulance ramping in the nation and has reached a new record high of 45.5%.
Some of the longest waits during the first three months of 2024 include:
- Logan Hospital, 7hrs and 50 mins in February
- Mater Adult Hospital Brisbane, 7hrs and 47 mins in January
- Ipswich Hospital, 7hrs and 46 mins in March
- Ipswich Hospital, 7hrs and 21 mins in February
- PA Hospital, 7hrs and 2 mins in February
- QEII Hospital, 6hrs and 50mins in January
- Redland Hospital, 6hrs and 11 mins in February
- Gold Coast University Hospital, 5 hours and 49 mins in January
Shadow Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Ros Bates said Queenslanders deserved a world-class health system but instead they were copping the impacts of a system under-resourced and under-pressure.
“Ambulance ramping isn't simply a number, it’s a Queenslander desperate for a hospital bed or another Queenslander on the end of a phone line waiting for help,” Ms Bates said.
“Queenslanders want more than empty promises to heal the Health Crisis, they want empty ambulance ramps and available hospital beds.
“Our ailing health system is getting chronically worse under Labor, it’s clear that because of their chaos and crisis they don’t have the solutions needed to heal the Health Crisis.
“Only the LNP has a plan to heal the Health Crisis and that starts with more resources, better triaging, releasing data in real-time and putting doctors and nurses back in charge to improve patient care.”
SOURCE: Question on Notice