The Liberal National Party is criticising the state government for the high ‘ramping’ rates in hospital emergency departments.
Queensland Health Minister Yvette D'Ath defended the system and called it ‘one of the world’s best’, and that last financial year it was reported that all critical patients were seen within clinically recommended time frames.
However, data collected earlier this year revealed that 57 per cent of Redlands Hospital patients remained on a stretcher longer than 30 minutes after arriving in emergency care - which is longer than the clinically recommended time frame.