Disclosure log 2014-15

Documents relating to:

(1) Water Fluoridation
(2) Child Oral Health data/surveys/information (particularly on the Qld COHS and any other survey work/investigations being done by ARCPOH at Adelaide University)
(3) NHMRC and fluoridation, particularly any information/correspondence on a new upcoming review NHMRC of fluoridation, particularly any requests for funding or support.
Date range:  18 April 2013 – 2 July 2014

Revised scope:

Emails and documents (other than internal emails and quarterly reports) for the period 3 April 2014 to 2 July 2014, with the exception of the documents listed below to be considered for the period 18 April 2013 to 2 July 2014:

• Fluoride notices for Banana and Flinders Shires
• NHRMC review related documents
• Funding agreement with Adelaide University
• Emails with Adelaide University regarding the Queensland Child Oral Health Survey (excluding draft chapters)
• Ministerials and/or briefs
• Internal reports (for example summaries, status reports, cost/effectiveness reports)
• Incident reports
• McKinley Council proposed de-fluoridation report.

Fluoride Action Network Australia Inc.

337 pages – full release
1 page – partial release
(Mobile telephone numbers and individuals’ names (including in email addresses) removed as irrelevant information. Pages 74-94 not to be published as copyright applies).
DOH-DL 14/15-001

The total number of times and dates where hospitals have been escalated to a “level 3” consistent with Local Ambulance Service Network Escalation. This includes specific times and dates where this occurs in every hospital in the following Local Ambulance Service Network:  Gold Coast, Metro South, Metro North and Sunshine Coast.

Date range:  1 January 2014 – 30 June 2014.

The number of assaults on members of the Queensland Ambulance Service.

Date range:  June 2011 – June 2014.

Documents produced since July 2008 (i.e. in the last 5 years) that are studies or reports, policy discussions, consultation reports or documents representing consultation processes, data analyses, ministerial briefs or guidelines relating to:

1. The identified problem of the poor physical health of people with mental illness.

2. The adverse effects of psychiatric medications, including antipsychotics, antidepressants, benzodiazepines and mood stabilisers, on the physical health of people with mental health illness (e.g. obesity, akathisia, tardive dyskinesia etc.)

3. The monitoring and/or treatment by doctors or health services of the physical health of people with mental illness including the physical adverse effects of psychiatric medications (e.g. through measurement of blood glucose/lipids/cholesterol, blood pressure, weight and waist circumference, electrocardiogram, etc.);

• the prevalence and adequacy of such monitoring and/or treatment;
• and barriers to the adequate performance of that monitoring and/or treatment (e.g. low motivation on part of consumers, stigma among health professionals, ‘overshadowing’ of the physical mental illness by the mental illness, confusion about responsibility for the performance of such monitoring/treatment as between GPs and psychiatrists etc.).

4. Any reconsideration of the risk-benefit ratio of antipsychotics or concerns about prescribing rates of antipsychotics due to their particular serious physical side effects.

1. For each Queensland public hospital with maternity ward, please supply all SAC1 reports lodged for maternity wards in the 2013 calendar year.

2. For each Queensland public hospital with maternity ward, please supply all SAC2 reports lodged for maternity wards in the 2013 calendar year.

I ask for the reports, however, as recorded on the Queensland Health clinical incidents reporting information system (PRIME C1) database.

All documents relating to:

• The Ramsey Health Care public patient services Agreement and the Sunshine Coast University Private Hospital (SCUPH).
• The Quality and Safety Standards that the SCUPH must meet when treating public patients.
• Performance criteria or other mechanisms used to measure outputs, clinical care provided to public patients.
• All reports, briefings, minutes and file notes of the Clinical Service Review Committee that monitor and review the quality of clinical care provided to public patients under the Ramsey Health Care public patient services Agreement at the SCUPH.
• Breaches of the Ramsey Health Care public patient service Agreement and the SCUPH, relating to the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service (SCHHS).
• Fines or other adverse consequences resulting from any breaches of the Ramsey Health Care public patient services Agreement and the SCUPH, relating to the SCHHS.
• All briefings and or reports relating to Adverse Events Notification Reports, formal and informal complaints and information relating to Coroner’s matters that have not been published and that relate to clinical care provided to patients under the Ramsey Health Care public patient services Agreement at the SCUPH.

Queensland Nurses Union

262 pages - full release
66 pages - partial release
DOH-DL 14/15-006

Any documents relating to ambulance callouts to police stations since January 1, 2012.

Please only include executive summaries of any reports captured. I would expect the date, location, reasons for the call-out and the outcome of the call-out would be included.

If CCTV is captured, please remove exempt material – i.e. pixelate and obscure faces and numberplates.

Revised scope:

Documents relating to ambulance callouts for assault related injuries at Wacol Prisons from 1 July 2013 - 16 October 2014.

Any and all documents relating to allocation of contracts and sub-contracts to build the Sunshine Coast Public Hospital but not limited to communications between the Deparment of Health and:

1. Exemplar Health Pty Ltd
2. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Pty Limited
3. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 1 Pty Limited
4. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 2 Pty Limited
5. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 3 Pty Limited
6. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 4 Pty Limited
7. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 1 Pty Limited
8. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 2 Pty Limited
9. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 3 Pty Limited
10. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 4 Pty Limited
11. The Sunshine Coast Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. and
12. LendLease.

Date range: 24 March 2014 – 12 August 2014.

Revised Scope:

Documents related to contracts to do work on the site of the Sunshine Coast Public Hospital (awarding in this context is undertaken by Lend Lease and not the Department).

DOH-DL 14/15-009

12/08/2014

Office of the Minister for Health

Any and all documents relating to allocation of contracts and sub-contracts to build the Sunshine Coast Public Hospital but not limited to communications between the Deparment of Health and:

1. Exemplar Health Pty Ltd
2. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Pty Limited
3. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 1 Pty Limited
4. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 2 Pty Limited
5. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 3 Pty Limited
6. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) 4 Pty Limited
7. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 1 Pty Limited
8. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 2 Pty Limited
9. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 3 Pty Limited
10. Exemplar Health (SCHUH) Holdings 4 Pty Limited
11. The Sunshine Coast Chamber of Commerce and Industry Inc. and
12. LendLease.

Date range:  24 March 2014 – 12 August 2014.

Documents showing the number of cases or requests from Qld Police Service to John Tonge Centre awaiting analysis (i.e. backlog of scientific work for criminal investigations) as at present, and June 30 2014, June 30 2013, June 30 2012, respectively.
Any reports, reflections, complaints or analysis on any backlog at John Tonge Centre made since June 30 2013.

Office of the Minister for Health

Documents produced since 01/03/2012 containing all communications between the Minister and/or Ministerial office and the agency about the closure and/or proposed closure and the impact of any such closure of the Barrett Centre including documents subsequent to the closure. I am particularly interested in any information relating to warnings and/or forecasts and/or predictions about the possible impact on the health and/or safety of Barrett Centre clients from the closure and/or proposed closure of the Barrett Centre.

Revised scope:

All letters and emails sent by Queensland Health staff and other clinical staff to the Office of the Minister for Health regarding the closure and/or proposed closure of the Barrett Centre for Mental Health.

DOH-DL 14/15-013

25/08/2014

Documents held by the Queensland Ambulance Service regarding the following:

1. capacity alerts and,
2. extreme capacity alerts issued to the Queensland Ambulance Service for the State’s 27 Queensland public hospitals.

1. For the 2013-14 financial year period, please provide a breakdown of all a) capacity and b) extreme capacity alerts issued for each individual public hospital, including dates and times when such alerts were in force in the period for each hospital.
2. For the 2012-13 financial year period, please provide a breakdown of all a) capacity and b) extreme capacity alerts issued for each individual public hospital, including dates and times when such alerts were in force in the period for each hospital.
3. For the 2011-12 financial year period, please provide a breakdown of all a) capacity and b) extreme capacity alerts issued for each individual public hospital, including dates and times when such alerts were in force in the period for each hospital.

Application withdrawn.

DOH-DL 14/15-014

26/08/2014

The number of shifts that were unable to be filled for any reason in the following Local Ambulance Service Networks – Gold Coast, Metro North, Metro South, Sunshine Coast and Ipswich in each of the following months – January 2014, February 2014, March 2014, April 2014, May 2014, June 2014, July 2014, August 2014.

Date range:  January – August 2014.

United Voice Queensland 

87 pages - full release
(Irrelevant information such as staff names has been removed)
DOH-DL 14/15-014

DOH-DL 14/15-015

03/09/2014

Briefing Notes, Terms of Reference, Governance, members of the Taskforce and/or Council, agenda, minutes and letters, regarding:

1. Queensland Health Renewal Taskforce
2. the Ministerial Health Infrastructure Advisory Council.

Date range:  1 July 2012 – 3 September 2014.

Revised Scope:

Documents regarding:
a) Queensland Health Renewal Taskforce
b) the Ministerial Health Infrastructure Advisory Council

Type of documents:
- briefing notes prepared for Ministers
- briefing notes prepared for the Premier
- Terms of Reference for public consumption.

Office of the Leader of the Opposition 

180 pages - full release
(Irrelevant information such as mobile and direct telephone numbers and legal advice has been removed)
DOH-DL 14/15-015

DOH-DL 14/15-016

03/09/2014

Briefing notes, letters, emails, contracts, sales documents and valuations, regarding the sale and/or potential sale of any land associated with and/or used by the Brisbane Dental Hospital.

Date range:  1 July 2012 – 2 September 2014.

Office of the Leader of the Opposition 

380 pages - full release
(Irrelevant information such as mobile phone numbers and other topics has been removed)
DOH-DL 14/15-016

DOH-DL 14/15-017

10/09/2014

(1)    All documents relating to the development and costings of the television and other related media campaigns, including but not limited to online and newspaper advertisements, regarding the changes to award conditions for Queensland Health staff, in particular but not limited to nurses;

(2)    All documents relating to the development and costings of correspondence and emails sent to Nurses and Midwives directly regarding the changes to award conditions for Queensland Health staff;

(3)    All documents relating to the planning and scheduling of the television and other related media campaigns, including but not limited to online and newspaper advertisements.

Date range:  1 January 2014 – 10 September 2014.

DOH-DL 14/15-018

10/09/2014

Office of the Minister for Health

(1)    All documents relating to the development and costings of the television and other related media campaigns, including but not limited to online and newspaper advertisements, regarding the changes to award conditions for Queensland Health staff, in particular but not limited to nurses;

(2)    All documents relating to the development and costings of correspondence and emails sent to Nurses and Midwives directly regarding the changes to award conditions for Queensland Health staff;

(3)    All documents relating to the planning and scheduling of the television and other related media campaigns, including but not limited to online and newspaper advertisements.

Date range:  1 January 2014 – 10 September 2014.

7 pages - full release
(Irrelevant information has been removed from the documents).
DOH-DL 14/15-018

19/09/2014

Information produced in the past 12 months about the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital:

1. The performance of consultants used to assist or manage the hospital project and any complaints and/or concerns about the performance of consultants including achievement of goals.
2. Any concerns and/or issues and/or problems with the new hospital raised as part of consultations with doctors and/or nurses and/or medical professionals in relation to the new hospital.  This may include minutes and/or briefing notes of any regular meetings between building construction managers and health professionals.
3. Whether KPIs are being met.
4. Biomed devices - how many have been purchased, how many are required, when will the system be delivered.
5. An ICT baseline plan and how much of this has been implemented and whether it is on track.

Date range:  September 2013 - September 2014.

Revised scope:

Within the period 19 September 2013 – 19 September 2014 with regards to the Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital, the following documents:

• Progress Reports
• ICT Blueprint and ICT Mock Trials, and the
• Change Register (dealing with any concerns and/or issues and/or problems with the new hospital raised as part of consultation with doctors and/or nurses and/or medical professionals in relation to the new hospital).

ABC Network

54 pages - full release
(Irrelevant information removed from page 54).
DOH-DL 14/15-019

24/09/2014

Number of pregnancy terminations that were conducted involving a foetus with a gestation period of 20 or more weeks.

Date range:  1 January 2013 – 31 December 2013.

DOH-DL 14/15-021

10/10/2014

Code 1 and Code 2a, 50^th and 90^th response percentiles per month from September 2013 to September 2014 (inclusive) for each LASN.

The annual response percentiles for Code 1 and 2a from 2009 to 2014 inclusive.

DOH-DL 14/15-022

21/10/2014

All documents relating to the proposed Wynnum Health Precinct.

Date range:  01/01/2012 - 21/10/2014.

DOH-DL 14/15-023

21/10/2014

Information produced in the last 12 months relating to asylum seekers being treated in public and/or private hospitals in Queensland, as follows:

1. Any information detailing the number, sex, age and country of origin of asylum seekers detained at offshore processing centres ie Manus Island, Nauru, Christmas Island and/or Customs vessels being admitted to Queensland hospitals for treatment?
2. Details on how many of these admissions have been following self harm or suicide attempts and/or resulting in psychiatric help?
3. Details on where these people have come from in relation to processing?
4. Details indicating how many have died?
5. Any documents relating to Hamid Kehazaei who was treated at the Mater Hospital, relating to his condition on arrival, the reason for his admission to hospital and the circumstances leading to his admission.
6. Details discussing and/or appointing a guardian in relation to Mr Kehazaie.
7. Details of any legal discussion/advice on who is responsible in the first instance for care, whether a guardian should be appointed and who that guardian should be in relation to asylum seekers needing medical attention generally.
8. Any correspondence between the Fed Government and or Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Queensland Health and/or its employees and/or Health Minister Lawrence Springborg relating to the admission and health care of asylum seekers to Queensland hospitals and health care services. In particular, any advice/ correspondence warning against public comment or making public any information in relation to asylum seekers seeking treatment/health services in Queensland hospitals and or health care services.

Date range:  01/09/2013 - 01/10/2014.

Revised scope:

Information produced in the last 12 months relating to asylum seekers being treated in public and/or private hospitals in Queensland, as follows:

Details of any legal discussion/advice on who is responsible in the first instance for care, whether a guardian should be appointed and who that guardian should be in relation to asylum seekers needing medical attention generally.

Any correspondence between the Federal Government and or Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Queensland Health and/or its employees and/or Health Minister Lawrence Springborg relating to the admission and health care of asylum seekers to Queensland hospitals and health care services. In particular, any advice/correspondence warning against public comment or making public any information in relation to asylum seeking treatment / health services in Queensland hospitals and or health care services.

Date range:  01/09/2013 - 01/10/2014.

Documents relating to written representation offers and submissions for the provision of prevocational medical accreditation services for the State of Queensland.

Date range:  01/11/2013 - 31/07/2014.

Any reports including investigation or incident reports, ministerial/executive briefings and attachments, and correspondence, such as letters and emails, relating to:

1. Cancer clusters;
2. Spates of asbestos-related illnesses;
3. Health issues related to the former Wunderlich factory at Gaythorne.

Date range:  01/01/2013 - 27/10/2014.

Revised scope:

Any reports including investigation or incident reports, ministerial/executive briefings and attachments, and correspondence, such as letters and emails, relating to:

1. Cancer clusters (briefing notes and attachments);
2. Spates of asbestos-related illnesses;
3. Health issues related to James Hardie fibrolite plant at Newstead.

Date range:  01/01/2013 - 27/10/2014.

Documents including briefings and attachments, reports, correspondence such as letters and emails and photos and CCTV involving:

1. Contamination and/or health concerns raised about the former Willawong Toxic Waste Dump;
2. Reports of cancer or related health problems among residents who live near the former Willawong Toxic Waste Dump;
3. Reports of cancer or related health problems among staff (including contractors) who worked on the planning/construction/post construction of the Willawong Bus Depot.

Date range:  01/01/2006 - 30/10/2014.

Any incident and investigation reports, ministerial/executive briefing notes and attachments, photos and CCTV relating to the Ebola threat in Queensland, including outbreaks and prevention measures/strategies.

Date range:  01/08/2014 - 03/11/2014.

Office of the Minister for Health

Any and all documents and correspondence regarding the proposed community health precinct in Wynnum.

Date range:  01/03/2012 - 03/11/2014.

Documents created or obtained by the Department regarding an incident that occurred on 5 September, 2014 at around 10pm on the Mitchell Highway near Charleville. The incident involved a vehicle coming off the road and its cargo subsequently exploded.

Date range:  05/09/2014 - 25/09/2014.

Statistics relating to patients admitted to public hospitals in Queensland for drug overdoses.

Information required:

• number of drug overdose patients
• the ages of patients
• gender of patients
• type of drug that led to the overdose (confirmed or suspected)
• the hospitals at which they first presented.

Date range:  2012, 2013, 2014.

Revised scope:

Statistics relating to patients admitted to public hospitals in Queensland for illicit drug overdoses in 2012, 2013 and 2014. In addition to the number of illicit drug overdose patients, please provide a breakdown of the ages of patients, gender of patients, type of illicit drugs that led to the overdose (confirmed or suspected) and the hospitals at which they first presented).

All QAS documents related to code 1 and 2 incidents in the Metro North and Metro South regions of Brisbane, between November 1 and November 30 2014, where the Queensland Ambulance Service did not meet the recommended response timeframes.

Date range:  01/11/2014 - 30/11/2014.

Office of the Minister for Health

Documents (including papers, briefing notes, internal memos, submissions, reports, correspondence, emails) relating to the opening of the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital received by the Minister's Office, along with any correspondence between the Minister's Office and members of hospital management or the hospital board regarding its readiness to open, issues regarding the scheduled opening date or issues with completing works/milestones on time.

Date range:  01/06/2014 - 15/12/2014.

Documents (including papers, briefing notes, internal memos, submissions, reports - including those to and from the hospital board, correspondence, emails) relating to the opening of the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, including any reports/updates provided regarding its readiness to open, issues regarding the scheduled opening date or issues with completing works/milestones on time.

Date range:  01/06/2014 -15/12/2014.

Procurement and engagement processes of Queensland Health for aeromedical and medical repatriation services particularly in respect of procurement and engagement of aeromedical and medical repatriation services provided by the Careflight Group (including entities).

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

The cost of (and amount paid for) services that have been purchased by Queensland Health from the Careflight Group (including entities) for any services or works, including aeromedical and medical repatriation services including in the context of the absence of any competition or competitive tendering processes in respect of procurement and engagement of aeromedical and medical repatriation services provided by the Careflight Group.

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

Concurrent employment, secondment, engagement or contracting of the services of senior officers of Queensland Government Departments (including Queensland Health) with any of the entities in the Careflight Group.

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

Revised Scope:

Concurrent employment, secondment, engagement or contracting of the services of senior officers or persons in senior management positions of Queensland Government Departments or entities (including Queensland Health and particularly within the Retrieval Services Queensland Unit) with any of the entities in the Careflight Group from which such senior officers have received any benefit (whether financial or otherwise); and

without limiting the generality of the above, in particular:

whether any person engaged in the role of Medical Director of Retrieval Services Queensland (or equivalent position) in the last 5 years has ever been concurrently employed, engaged or otherwise associated (for financial or other benefit) with any entities within the Careflight Group.

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

Whether any person engaged in the role of Medical Director of Retrieval Services Queensland (or equivalent position) in the last five years has ever been employed, engaged or otherwise associated (for financial or other benefit) with any entities within the Careflight Group.

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

Whether any person engaged in the role of Medical Director of Queensland Ambulance Service (or equivalent position) in the last five years has ever been employed, engaged or otherwise associated (for financial or other benefit) with any entities within the Careflight Group.

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

Whether any person engaged in a senior management position within Queensland Health (and particularly within the Retrieval Services Queensland Unit) in the last five years has ever been employed, seconded, engaged or otherwise associated (for financial or other benefit) with any entities within the Careflight Group.

Date range:  01/01/2010 - 23/12/2014.

Email exchanges and/or discussions in the period from 17 to 19 September 2014 between representatives of Queensland Health and the Mater Private Hospital making reference to entities within the Careflight Group and/or in relation to tasking air ambulance services for interstate transfers.

Date range:  17/09/2014 - 19/09/2014.

Revised scope:

Date range:  17/09/2013 - 19/09/2013.

The $300 million from funding by the Queensland Government over the next 10 years to the Careflight Group (including entities) and, in particular, the due diligence, investigation and cost-benefit processes associated with and giving rise to the Queensland Government deciding to commit to that funding including in the context of there being no competition or competitive tendering processes in respect of procurement and engagement of aeromedical and medical repatriation services provided by the Careflight Group, this being contrary to current practices in such other Australian jurisdictions (such as NSW and Victoria, the governments of which in recent years conducted comprehensive reviews of practices in relation to procurement and engagement of aeromedical and medical repatriation services provided to government departments and entitites - and which resulted in the provision of such services to government entities being open to competition and competitive tendering). The subject matter includes any consideration, research and/or opinion and/or findings in respect of opening up the provision of aeromedical and medical repatriation services to government departments and entities (including Queensland Health) to competition and competitive tendering.

Date range:  01/01/2012 - 23/12/2014.

1. Workforce profile for the Department of Health and all HHSs
- Quarterly totals for workforce as a percentage of total workforce (head count)
- Measures:  MOHRI Occupied Head count
- Numerator:  MOHRI Occupied Head count:  all categories of the workforce
- Denominator:  MOHRI Occupied Head count:  all paypoints for all categories of the workforce
- Source:  HR Payroll
From:  1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014

2. Workforce profile for Nursing skill mix
- Quarterly totals of Nursing workforce as a percentage based on Student and Assistants in Nursing (grades 1 and 2), Enrolled Nurses (grades 3 and 4), Registered Nurses (grades 5 to 8) and Nursing Executive (grades 9 to 12) compared to total nursing workforce (FTE)
- Measures:  MOHRI Occupied FTE
- Numerator:  MOHRI Occupied FTE:  Sum Grades 1 and 2, 3 and 4, 5 to 8, 9 to 12
- Denominator:  MOHRI Occupied FTE:  all nursing
- Source:  HR Payroll
From 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014.

3. Affected position spreadsheets or other documents that contain information outlining all roles / positions (full time, part time and casual) that have been or are to be affected the the restructure / redesign / re-establishment of the Department and HHSs and can often be found attached to a "Implementation Plans of the HHS, Business Case for Change, Activity Management Plans and/or Organisational Restructure" or other similar document. The document/s woudl include, but not be exclusive to, data about roles / positions that:
a. have been or are to be made redundant via an expression of interest;
b. have been or are to be made redundant via HHS directive;
c. are held by staff that have been redeployed; and
d. that have been created as a result of merging two or more positions;
e. the number of staff that may have been redeployed;
f. the number of staff that may be redeployed; and positions.
From 11 December 2013 - 31 December 2014.

4. Voluntary Separation Packages - A quarterly breakdown of the total number of 'voluntary separation packages' from 1 January 2011 - 31 December 2014 for all categories of the workforce.

Documents concerning the following:

1. The total number of collisions involving Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS) vehicles in:
a. the 2011-12
b. the 2012-13
c. the 2013-14
financial years.

2. The total number of paramedics injured during accidents involving QAS vehicles in:
a. the 2011-12
b. the 2012-13
c. the 2013-14
financial years.

3. For each of the accidents involving QAS vehicles where paramedics were injured in the 2013-14 financial year, please supply the incident report for each in the 2013-14 financial year, including date, location, description of damage, where the vehicle was under 'lights and sirens', and injuries (if any) to paramedics.

Office of the Minister for Health

All internal communication between members of the Newman Government Health Ministry and Assistant Ministry's department relating to the Ministry's relationship/ interaction / communication with the Queensland AIDS Council (previously known as the Queensland Association for Healthy Communities).

In particular communication from:
Minister Lawrence Springborg
Ass. Minister Chris Davis
Mark Wood
Cameron Thompson
Jake Smith

Date range:  March 2012 - January 2015.

Documents relating to the opening of the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital held by the department, including briefing papers, reports or correspondence re the hospital's readiness to open, issues regarding the scheduled opening date or issues with completing works / milestones on time.

Date range:  1 June 2014 - 12 February 2015.

119 pages -  full release
DOH-DL 14/15-049

Documents relating to:

(i) research and / or analysis of the effect of water fluoridation on dental health since December 1, 2008;
(ii) Any advice from the department to the Minister on what the impact on dental health was and / or continues to be since the change in 2013 that allowed local councils to decide whether to fluoridate water supplies;
(iii) Any advice to the incoming Health Minister, Cameron Dick, on water fluoridation.

All correspondence including emails between the Queensland Health Minister's office, Queensland Health media and the Office of the Ambulance Commissioner (including his deputies and media officers) that relates to reporting of escalations at Queensland hospitals (ie: when delays are affecting the arrival and unloading of ambulances at hospital Emergency Departments).

This includes any arrangements for or discussion about the reporting of ambulance ramping.

All correspondence that describes the way escalations are to be reported - particularly on social media and especially on twitter.

Date range:  10 February 2015 - 4 March 2015.

Number of pregnancy terminations that were conducted involving a foetus with a gestation period of 20 or more weeks.

Date range:  1 January 2014 – 31 December 2014.

Office of the Minister for Health

All inward and outward email exchanges (and any attachments) between the Minister or staff employed within the Office and the Minister and staff within the Office of the Premier (including any volunteers or secondments).

Date range:  1 March 2015 - 9 March 2015.

Details of persons who have contracted the Q-Fever Virus as a result of working in the agricultural industry and/or with or around agricultural by products such as biological animal waste.

All documents including but not limited to photographs, reports, file notes and letters anytime prior to 20 March 2015.

Office of the Minister for Health

All correspondence between the Minister and the Federal Health Minister since the election.

All communications from January 2015 including, but not limited to, reports, surveys, advice, emails, analysis, and assessment prepared by Queensland Health in relation to the state government's decision in January 2015 to allow Mount Isa Mines to continue operating under special legislation, namely the Mount Isa Mines Limited Agreement Act 1985 (Qld), rather than complying with the Environmental Protection (Air) Policy 1997 (Qld) by the end of 2016, as was previously the case.

All communications from June 2011 - January 2012 including, but not limited to, reports, surveys, advice, emails, letters, documents, analysis, and assessment prepared by Queensland Health in relation to the state government's decision in December 2011 to require Mount Isa Mines to comply with the Environmental Protection (Air) Policy 1997 (Qld) by the end of 2016.

Any statistics, reports, letters, advice, analysis, and/or assessment on blood lead levels in Mount Isa children, both Indigenous and non-Indigenous, for the period 2005-2015.

Statistics, reports, letters, advice, analysis, and assessment of asthma rates in Mount Isa for the period 2005-2015, and any statistics regarding asthma rates for the same period in other parts of Queensland.

Statistics, reports, letters, advice, analysis, and/or assessment on the rates of dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia in Mount Isa children for the period 2005-2015, and any statistics on the rates of dyslexia, dyscalculia, and dysgraphia for the same period in other parts of Queensland.

Tender documents that were provided to QAS by the winning supplier for supply of power assisted stretchers with loading and locking devices to the Queensland Ambulance Service.

Date range: 25 June 2014 - 24 July 2014.

Documents regarding any directive or request from then Minister for Health Lawrence Springborg to the Director-General or the bureaucracy, to discover which, and how many, employees were members of a union.

Date range:  April 2012 - February 2015.

The PRIME CI reports lodged in relation to the LCCH.

Issues Register held by the Health Infrastructure Branch re LCCH.

Date range:   20 November 2014 - 01 June 2015.

9 pages - full release
(Identifiable patient information has been removed)
Please contact Privacy and Right to Information Unit on (07) 3234 1735 or email RTI-Privacy@health.qld.gov.au if you wish to access this document.

Any information including documents, reports, emails, briefing notes relating to safety audits conducted at the LCCH prior to its opening, including those by external sources.

Date range:  29 November 2014 - 01 June 2015.

The total costs of legal services provided by law firm Minter Ellison on behalf of Queensland Health (including all Hospital and Health Services) pertaining to employee related industrial relation matters only (not patient/client related services) for the financial year 2013-2014.

Also the cost of monies paid to Queensland Health employees who have taken successful legal action against Queensland Health for the financial year 2013-2014.

This would include both court ordered rulings in favour of employees and confidential settlements agreed to prior to civil action being finalised.

Date range:  01 July 2013 - 30 June 2014.

Documents containing information about the Royal Flying Doctor Service:

(a) Any audit and/or other report or advice in relation to any internal fraud issues and/or problems and/or failures at the RFDS produced by, or provided to, the RFDS in the last 10 years.
(b) Any communications in relation to any significant (i) fraud and/or (ii) embezzlement at the RFDS including information about possible media strategy and/or public relations strategy.
* Fraud to involve sums of money greater than $50,000.

Date range:  01 January 2007 - 31 March 2012.

Request for Queensland Ambulance Service information as follows:

1. Reports recording concerns about intrusive activity such as members of the public following QAS to accident scenes or homes to witness an emergency event.
2. Any internal Queensland Ambulance report discussing this type of activity and the appropriate responses to this conduct.
3. Any video taken of individuals either pursuing ambulance vehicles or gathering at incident scene for the purpose of observation.

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 15 June 2015.

Documents, containing information, produced in the last 20 years in relation to the Buranda Car Park and deaths and attempted suicides of patients at the Princess Alexandra Hospital. Specifically, information about:

(a) Incidences of (i) suicide and (ii) attempted suicide each year and details of any such incident at the Buranda car park. Including information about the (iii) mental state and/or stability and (iv) the suspected mental state and/or stability of individuals involved in those incidences.

(b) Recommendations in relation to improved safety and/or other measures to stop and/or decrease incidences of attempted suicide or actual suicide including any warnings that failure to act could lead to possible or actual loss of life.

(c) Details, including all communications, about why any such recommendations have or have not been implemented.

(d) Communications with any external parties in relation to measures to stop and/or decrease incidences of attempted suicide or actual suicide.

(e) Any budgetary or other constraints that have stopped and/or hindered the implementation of safety measures.

Date range:  01 January 1995 - 08 June 2015.

The submissions, written or otherwise, lodged as part of the current review into the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital to examine the building and operational commissioning processes carried out in late 2014 from:

1. clinical staff
2. non-clinical staff
3. patients/parents and/or caregivers
4. contractors.

NB:  This relates to the current review underway.

QHealth spending on temporary agency services for the duration of this contact, being for Provision of Agency Nursing Services:

1. total spend on temporary nursing agency services to date for this contract
2. average per hour rate spent for staff classifications: RN Div 1 and EN Div 1 to date for this contract
3. Highest per hour rate for RN Div 1 and EN Div 1 staff classifications
4. Lowest per hour rate for RN Div 1 and EN Div 1 staff classifications.

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 25 June 2015.