Friday, 10th July 2020
Gold Coast residents desperate for surgery have been
left fuming after learning they’ve being pushed to the back of the waiting list
at Gold Coast University Hospital, with little notice.
LNP Shadow Health Minister and Mudgeeraba MP Ros Bates said it’s a devastating
blow for locals who’ve already suffered unacceptable delays.
“5188 patients on the Gold Coast are on Labor’s surgery wait list,” Ms Bates
said.
“That’s an increase of 52% since Annastacia Palaszczuk became Premier.
“On the Gold Coast, there are 35,621 people waiting to see a specialist,
including 16,797 category 3 patients.
“These aren’t just numbers on a spread sheet, these are real people, with real
health issues and today I stand with the human face of Labor’s surgery wait
list shame.
“Tani Bloudell’s story is
just one of thousands across Queensland that reveals the dire state of Labor’s
health system.
“Annastacia Palaszczuk promised better local health services but since the last
state election, ramping has increased and is now at 35 per cent at the Gold
Coast University Hospital.
“That is more than one in three patients waiting on ambulance stretchers for
longer than 30 minutes – outside clinically recommended timeframes.
“Steven Miles spent two years bagging the LNP’s plan about partnering with the private sector to provide better patient care and then tried to adopt it.
“Labor aren’t focused on patient care, they are more
interested in wasting taxpayer’s money renaming hospitals and ongoing major IT
blowouts.
“Before Coronavirus hit, the Queensland health system was on its knees, with
shocking waiting lists, record ambulance ramping rates and code yellows became
the new normal.
“A vote for the LNP on October 31 is a vote for better health services, because
we believe all Queenslanders deserve a world class health system no matter
where they live.”
