Queensland emergency departments caught in hospital gridlock crisis
Lawrence Springborg MP
Mark McArdle MP
LEAKED Queensland Health data on Queensland’s biggest emergency departments show the number of sick people waiting more than eight hours in the Beattie-Bligh Government’s emergency queue to a hospital bed has doubled.
Opposition leader Lawrence Springborg said the un-published Queensland Health data on 21 major public hospitals showed the queue to a hospital bed in emergency departments had more than doubled in the last five years.
Mr Springborg said the leaked data from 2003-04 to 2007-08 backed up long-running warnings from doctors, nurses, paramedics, patients and health bureaucrats – proving the Beattie-Bligh Government had grown a serious emergency department overcrowding and access block problem into a major crisis.
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