In an extraordinary move, Health Minister Steven Miles has bowed to pressure from The Sunday Mail’s Operation Wait Loss campaign by announcing a five-pronged attack to slash the surgery backlog in the Queensland public hospital system.
Patients in our backlogged hospital system are experiencing pain and discomfort so bad they can’t sleep, turning them into walking zombies. For little Asher, 8, the problem is so bad he experiences frightening hallucinations and is unable to get a deep, REM sleep.
A nurses’ union says the health and safety of mothers and their newborns is at risk due to the method of calculating midwifery staff ratios.
Smoking might be on the wane, but the tobacco companies aren’t going down without a fight, with their latest shock tactics to boost sales revealed.
Already stretched firefighters are being called out to assist paramedics ‘rescue’ obese patients stuck inside their own homes.
Health Minister Steven Miles was “incredibly moved” by the stories told to The Sunday Mail last week by breast cancer patients waiting as long as eight years for reconstruction.
Cancer and heart patients are bogged in a secret backlog of sick Queenslanders waiting years to see a specialist doctor in a public hospital.
Parents are so keen to choose the gender of their children they are turning to overseas treatments costing tens of thousands of dollars and other unproven, “old wives” methods. However new Queensland research has shown their efforts are in vain.
They might finally be off the Diamond Princess, but a Gold Coast couple who created headlines by getting a drone wine delivery to their cabin say there’s going to be a “f—ing riot” after making a grim discovery in their new Darwin quarantine camp.
Queensland Health has withdrawn its show cause and threat of disciplinary action against a Queensland nurse who told The Sunday Mail that student nurses were poorly trained.
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