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.
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FORMER Ipswich state MP Rachel Nolan believes the city’s future “hangs in the balance” and the next few years are critical to setting things on the right path after the monumental damage done by corrupt mayor Paul Pisasale and other senior council figures.
Now executive chair at think tank the McKell Institute, Ms Nolan has been out of politics for almost a decade.
At the time she was the youngest woman ever elected as an MP in Queensland when she won the seat of Ipswich in 2001, at the age of 26. Bill Hayden with former MPs Rachel Nolan (left), David Hamill (right), and current Ipswich MP Jennifer Howard in 2016.