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Hospitals from hell: Over budget, inefficient and staff can’t take a holiday
Wednesday February 10, 2021
Staff unable to take days off and hospitals unable to make money from parking and private patients caused a $70 million shortfall last year.
With budgets in the red and inefficient services, Queensland hospitals face a looming financial emergency. Photo: ABC
In a report tabled in parliament this week, Auditor-General Brendan Worrall highlighted the growing number of Hospital and Health Service districts with budgets in the red.
Worrall said that seven of the 16 HHSs had accumulated an overall loss since they were formed in 2012. That was three more than the…
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