Queensland announces its Hospital Rescue Plan

The Queensland Government has announced its Hospital Rescue Plan, which includes the delivery of three new hospitals and more than 2600 new beds. Additionally, the plan includes 10 major hospital expansions, the new Queensland Cancer Centre and new, expanded and upgraded health facilities — to deliver easier access to health services across the state.

“We promised easier access to health services and we’re delivering it with the Hospital Rescue Plan,” Premier David Crisafulli said. “This record investment into our hospitals will help heal the Queensland Health Crisis and deliver more hospitals.”

Crisafulli added, “Queensland now has a credible plan to deliver the hospital beds needed now and into the future.” The new hospitals are at the Gold Coast in Coomera, Toowoomba (with all services at the new site) and Bundaberg (with all services at the new site).

“This Plan delivers the work and planning required to ensure all services that should be delivered with these new and expanded hospitals, are delivered,” Queensland’s Minister for Health and Ambulance Services Tim Nicholls said, also making reference to an additional 46,000 health workers by 2032.

In the statement from Nicholls, the plan was described as following “a scathing independent review into Labor’s hospital build program, which has exposed major mismanagement including delays, under-funded projects and significant design flaws which left critical health services missing from hospitals”.

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