00:00 A health system under pressure.
00:04 Paramedics and health executives uniting to try and reduce lengthy wait times at the busiest
00:10 hospitals.
00:11 So these are some good key initial outcomes of the meeting.
00:15 The government has pledged $20 million to create more frontline jobs.
00:20 I want to make sure that we're doing everything we can to better manage patient flow and support
00:25 our clinicians.
00:26 The funding will establish medical commanders at all hospitals, fund more rapid access clinics,
00:33 create patient care facilitators at GPs, extend medical imaging access after hours and increase
00:40 the number of triage nurses.
00:42 The figure is still unknown.
00:44 I will be meeting weekly with the acting director general and frontline clinicians to ensure
00:51 that these initiatives are being rolled out.
00:53 Doctors say it's a step in the right direction.
00:57 Implementing these will make a difference and will improve the care of the emergency
01:01 patients and also the patients waiting in the community for the ambulance.
01:05 The government has come under fire after Queensland man Wayne Irving died in hospital after his
01:11 ambulance was ramped for three hours.
01:13 The Premier says a booming population is pushing more people into the public system.
01:19 We are absolutely planning for this growing state.
01:22 But I tell you what we can't control and that is 120,000 people moving here in the
01:27 last year.
01:28 The government has previously held crisis talks to tackle ramping.
01:32 She's having a meeting.
01:34 Yvette Darth had a roundtable in 2021 about ambulance ramping.
01:40 What are the solutions from that roundtable, from that meeting that took place two years
01:43 ago?
01:44 Three of Greater Brisbane's largest hospitals had patients wait up to nine hours to be transferred
01:50 from an ambulance stretcher to a hospital bed this year.
01:54 However, the newest data shows the median wait time was 26 minutes.
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