Some south-east Queensland patients were left on an ambulance stretcher, waiting for an emergency department bed for almost eight hours, official figures have revealed.
Queensland Ambulance Service figures show that in June this year the longest time paramedics waited to transfer patients into a public hospital was 479 minutes – or seven hours and 59 minutes – at Logan Hospital.
That was followed by 476 minutes at Gold Coast University Hospital and 473 minutes at Redcliffe Hospital.
