David Crisafulli announces at least one clinician to be on every Queensland hospital & health board. It’s already been legislated by parliament & is written into the Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011.



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  1. He would have been 32 at the time.
    Forgive him for missing it… he would have been busy with all the nose beers with Dutton’s mates

  2. ConanTheAquarian on

    # Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011

    23 Membership of boards

    (1) A board consists of 5 or more members appointed by the Governor in Council, by gazette notice, on the recommendation of the Minister.

    (2) The Minister is to recommend persons the Minister considers have the skills, knowledge and experience required for a Service to perform its functions effectively and efficiently, including—

    (a) persons with expertise in health management, business management, financial management and human resource management; and

    (b) persons with clinical expertise; and

    (c) persons with legal expertise; and

    (d) persons with skills, knowledge and experience in primary healthcare; and

    (e) persons with knowledge of health consumer and community issues relevant to the operations of the Service; and

    (f) persons with skills, knowledge and experience in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health and community issues relevant to the operation of the Service; and

    (g) where relevant, persons from universities, clinical schools or research centres with expertise relevant to the operations of the Service; and

    (h) persons with other areas of expertise the Minister considers relevant to a Service performing its functions.

    (3) **One or more of the members of a board must be clinicians**.

    (4) One or more of the members of a board must be Aboriginal persons or Torres Strait Islander persons.

    (5) In this section—

    ***clinician*** means a person who—

    (a) is a health professional registered under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law, other than as a student; and

    (b )is currently directly or indirectly providing care or treatment to persons; and

    (c) is in a profession that provides care or treatment to persons in public sector health services.

  3. Foreign-Horror9086 on

    Also his “I’m going to get 35k new nurses”

    Where from buddy? You don’t think Q Health is literally always recruiting? It’s not like they have a mantra “recruit retain retrain” already.

    Staff takes time to hire and train. Especially when you’re waiting on uni grads.

    Oh we will pull them from other states – wait THEY don’t have enough staff either!

    Get more overseas workers? When there’s already a huge cultural shift in the hospital workforce, and the old staff are already feeling put out and disregarded? Sure that’s working out great so far with staff satisfaction.

    And how are we supposed to pay for all that, considering the LNP wants to reduce the royalties from mining?

    Get bent Crisafulli. Come back to me with an actual plan with actual details.