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Keira Jenkins

Health system under pressure as hospital data released

Ambulance arrivals at Queensland hospitals have increased by 4.4 per cent this year. (Russell Freeman/AAP PHOTOS)

Nearly half the patients arriving by ambulance to Queensland emergency departments are waiting more than 30 minutes on stretchers to be admitted.

The latest public hospital performance data for January, February and March, showed 54.5 per cent of patients were transferred from an ambulance to the emergency department in under half an hour, down from 57.1 per cent in the last quarter of 2023.

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