LNP pledges extra $590 million for health and to get ramping below 30 per cent if elected
ABCThe LNP has pledged an extra half a billion dollars for Queensland's health budget and to bring ramping below 30 per cent in four years if it wins the state election. Loading Dr Allan said the LNP's policy "largely" forgot rural and remote Queenslanders and focused instead on metropolitan and regional hospitals. 'Devil is in the detail' of workforce plan Australian Medical Association Queensland president and GP, Dr Nick Yim, said the LNP's $590 pledge was a "significant" amount. He said the party's plan for a 25 per cent loading for some staff to make sure hospitals were "fully operational" seven days a week was "promising". Call for 'radical restructuring' More staff and beds were "simply unsustainable empty promises" unless major parties dealt with the system's "toxic culture", "bureaucratic bloat" and burnout, the Nurses Professional Association of Queensland said.
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