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LNP calls for police beats in hospitals to halt rising violence Normal text size Advertisement The LNP has called for police beats to be co-located at major Queensland hospitals to arrest the escalating problem of assaults on health workers. Opposition health spokeswoman Ros Bates, the long-serving LNP member for Mudgeeraba, is still a registered nurse and her two sisters are also experienced nurses. Having police beats in hospitals "would mean that if there is an assault, the police can come over straight away", says Opposition Health spokeswoman Ros Bates. Credit:Jason South Both of her si...

‘Hopeless’: Angry families slam Covid office closure Families are “frustrated and angry” after a Queensland Health office handling quarantine exemptions closed for Christmas. News by Tobias Jurss-Lewis Premium Content Subscriber only DESPERATE families requesting quarantine exemptions have been met with out-of-office emails from Queensland Health, advising its liaison office was shut for 10 days over the Christmas period. The Courier-Mail has been told Queenslanders in home quarantine wanting an exemption were directed to the Dep...

Health by Vanessa Marsh Premium Content Subscriber only A decorated soldier has revealed he felt safer on deployment to Afghanistan than he did while working in the state's largest hospital, warning Queensland Health security needs an urgent overhaul before someone is killed. The Sunday Mail can also reveal assaults on hospital staff have increased by 55 per cent over the past three years, with health workers, doctors and nurses physically and verbally abused 34 times a day. Former infantry soldier Dean Douglass served for almost a decade and completed fo...

POSITIVE sewage tests for COVID-19 have been narrowed down to specific treatment plants, but locals in some areas aren't being directly warned in a loophole that could potentially allow the virus to slip through. Health Minister Yvette D'Ath revealed last weekend that sewage in the Gold Coast, Townsville, Cleveland and North Cairns had tested positive for coronavirus. She and Chief Health Officer Dr Jeannette Young urged residents of those areas to get a COVID test to ensure they were not contagious. But the Gold Coast has four sewage treatment plants, stretching from Pimpama in the north...

  THE Gold Coast's  top cop has hit back at dishonest locals claiming they are stranded and unsafe due to border blocks at smaller crossings, saying police cannot accommodate every whim. It comes as Mudgeeraba resident Keith Douglas slammed a hard closure to Numinbah at Nerang-Murwillumbah Rd, claiming emergency vehicles could not pass and it was being unmanned by police. Once-Gold Coast Council candidate Keith Douglas with his bull Rambo. Picture: supplied. The same closure was in place in March. Mr Douglas said: "Enough is enough. This is one of many problems affecting Gold Coa...