Opposition leader David Crisafulli said better triage, better resources, sharing data in real time and putting doctors and nurses back in charge were needed to fix what he called "a health crisis" in Queensland.
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"I'd love to see the government start listening but when you hear the AMAQ say 'we sit at roundtables, the government nods, and nothing ever gets implemented', when you have a parliamentary report where 40 recommendations are made and only 10pc relate to the state, I don't think the government is serious about fixing the health crisis," Mr Crisafulli said on Tuesday.
Mr Crisafulli was speaking in Brisbane on Tuesday but on Friday the focus was Mount Isa where he held a community meeting to discuss the state of healthcare in north-west Queensland.
Mr Crisafulli said nowhere was more cognisant of the need to put doctors and nurses back in charge than Mount Isa where the entire health board was sacked last year though a new board has now been reinstated.
"Locals know here better than anywhere the joy of local decision making and when that is taken away they understand how important it is," he said.
He said the issues here included waiting lists to get important surgery and treatments that other Queenslander takes for granted.
"One of the biggest issues raised (in Mount Isa) was the feeling that healthcare services have degenerated over the years," he told media.
"That troubles me - that despite improvements in modern medicine, people in an important economic hub like the Isa feel they are getting an increasingly worse quality of service."
"There was also an acknowledgement that remote areas don't necessarily expect to have every single health service made accessible to them in their communities, but the services that are there, need to be quality and reliable."
Mr Crisafulli said other issues in the region included staff retention linked to a lack of incentives and housing as well as mistrust from First Nations people in the healthcare system.
"There needs to be better incentives to attract and retain healthcare staff out to the region," he said.
He said his objectives were twofold.
"Firstly we see to see wins for individuals, people on waiting lists for waiting lists, where we've been able to take their case forward, but also people who have had cancellations for surgery multiple times," he said.
"But there is a bigger reason we are doing this and it is to drive change for the Queensland health crisis.
"We have put forward our solutions
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