Queensland Health
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Like all other states and territories in Australia, the Queensland Government provides free or low-cost health services to people with a Medicare card or are from reciprocal country, or at-cost services to ineligible patients. In addition, some people from northern New South Wales and the Northern Territory receive care through Queensland Health due to a lack of services in their local areas. Queensland became the first state in Australia to introduce free universal public hospital treatment in January 1946, a policy later adopted by other jurisdictions.
Queensland Health employs over 97,000 staff and has an annual operating budget of over AU$30 billion. At the end of June 2014, there were 11,109 inpatient beds available across all state hospitals, with 305 designed intensive care beds. Provided by Wikipedia
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1by Kaladharan, Sid, Vidgen, Miranda E, Pearson, John V, Donoghue, Victoria K, Whiteman, David C, Waddell, Nicola, Pratt, GregoryContributors: “...Queensland Health...”
Published in BMJ Global Health (2021)
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