“We have put in proposals to move these long stay patients, I want to see that funding come to Queensland as soon as possible.
“We’re doing our bit, with a $200 million investment to move long stay patients out. We are getting them through more quickly, but they keep coming and the federal government needs to work with us to find solutions because a lot of this is about capacity in our aged care sector.”
The data also showed there were more than 603,000 presentation to emergency departments between January and March.
LNP opposition leader David Crisafulli said the health department had hit rock bottom, and said the ambulance ramping rate was the worst in Queensland’s history.
“Behind every one of these ambulance ramping statistics is a patient who doesn’t get the help in their hour of need, but also a paramedic that can’t go back out on the road and a doctor and a nurse just trying to hold a broken health system together by their fingertips,” he said.
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