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Queensland Health crisis: 44 ambo crews lost per day to overflowing, ramped Qld hospitals.
"Paramedics lost more than 161,000 hours waiting to transfer patients into overflowing Queensland hospitals last year, taking 44 ambulance crews out of action every day."
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That subsequent calculation, confirmed by the Health Minister’s office, shows paramedics lost a record amount of hours waiting to transfer patients. The total lost hours was almost 15,000 hours higher than in 2022, about a 10 per cent jump, and about 30,000 hours higher than 2021 – with the December quarter the busiest for hospitals on record. The opposition spent days attacking Ms Fentiman, accusing her of deliberately releasing the ambulance data in a different format to avoid scrutiny – an accusation she has vehemently denied. The saga began after her office’s response to a parliamentary Question on Notice returned with the average waiting time rather than the total hours, as had previously been provided. LNP health spokeswoman Ros Bates accused Ms Fentiman in parliament of “deliberately lying” about the data and said Queenslanders deserved “more transparency”. “These shocking statistics are the worst ambulance lost hours on record, never before have ambulances waited so long on ramps in October, November and December,” Ms Bates said.
“Shannon Fentiman has deliberately lied to Queenslanders, claiming the numbers were going down when in fact they were getting much worse. “Queenslanders were looking for leadership from Labor, instead they got lies and cover-ups at the hands of a minister more worried about political future instead of Queensland’s future.” Ms Fentiman said Queensland’s ambulance service was the busiest in the country, responding to 1.2 million incidents a year, but the response times were among the best in the nation. “Unlike the LNP, we have put real solutions on the table to tackle ambulance ramping and ED pressures with our $764m Putting Patients First initiative, $200m to address long-stay patients, and $20m in new Patient Flow initiatives,” she said. “Almost 600,000 people were treated in our emergency departments between October and December last year, marking the busiest December quarter on record. “Despite this increased demand, the Queensland Ambulance Service continues to improve. “Since rolling out our patient flow initiatives, including ED commanders, triage nurses, more doctors and longer imaging hours, we have seen improvements to the flow of patients presenting to our busy emergency departments.” TOTAL LOST AMBULANCE HOURS STATEWIDE 2023: 161,909 2022: 147,001 HOURS LOST PER DAY 2023: 443.6 2022: 402.7 CREWS LOST PER DAY 2023: 44.4 2022: 40.3