Mr Crisafulli and the people who attended the Rockhampton meeting were unanimous in their praise for the doctors, nurses and other staff on the ground whom, he said, were “trying their guts out” to help patients.
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Shadow Health Minister Ros Bates will fly into the Beef Capital to look at the problem of ramping at Rockhampton Base Hospital.
Her trip was prompted by data showing the city was among the worst for ambulance ramping in Queensland: Rockhampton’s ramping has increased 27 per cent since February 2020 such that nearly half of all patients were not transferred off-stretcher within 30 minutes.
Statewide, there has been an average ramping increase of 11 per cent within the same period.
“The State Government is losing control of the health system,” Ms Bates claimed.
“The Opposition has been inundated with health horror stories from honest Queenslanders since we raised the issue in state parliament.
Almost half of the patients were left waiting on ambulance stretchers at Rockhampton Hospital in February, new data has revealed. Queensland Health data for February revealed 49 per cent of patients were ramped at Rockhampton Hospital, which was up 27 per cent from the same time last year. The state opposition revealed 40 per cent of patients across the state were spending 30 minutes or more waiting on ambulance stretchers at hospitals that same month. State Shadow Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Ros Bates said it was unacceptable patients taken to Rockhampton Hospital in an ambulance were forced to wait longer than the recommended time frame.
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UPDATE 3.15PM: A teenage boy has been flown to Sunshine Coast University Hospital in a critical condition after he was thrown from a tractor at Glen Echo this morning. The teenager and another man in his 50s were on the tractor when it overturned and rolled several meters down a hill just before 9.30am Thursday morning. The teenager was thrown from the cabin and then crushed by the tractor as it rolled. He suffered serious abdominal injuries in the crash and was flown to the Sunshine Coast in a critical condition. The man suffered chest injuries and was taken to Gympie Hospital in a stable condition.
Five years after the Tasmanian Government pledged to put patients first, hospital wait times remain a sore point
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While Luke Emery has had positive experiences with the hospital system, his mother says other family members have not.
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Key points:
The 2016 Tasmanian Government initiative Patients First was supposed to help with access to two of the state s major hospitals
Two further initiatives aimed at improving access to the Launceston General Hospital and Royal Hobart Hospital were announced late last year
Despite these, in the first two weeks of 2021, both hospitals reported more issues with ambulance ramping