Disclosure Log 2015-2016

Documents relating to instances whereby dehydration and/or malnourishment have been detected in patients at Queensland Hospitals after they have died.

Date range:  01 January 2012 - 15 July 2015.

Seven Network

2 pages - full release
DOH-DL 15/16-001

Documents relating to Queensland patient admissions for heat stress, including the patient's age and treament outcome (eg. whether they were discharged, survived, etc.)

Date range:  01 January 2012 - 16 July 2015.

The number of call-outs to Wacol prisons in the last 12 months
- broken down into priority category and then
- broken down into time (0600-1200, 1200-1800, 1800-0001, 0001-0600)
- outlining the number of prisoners transferred to hospital and
- reason for call-out (broad category).

Date range:  01 July 2014 - 01 July 2015.

All documentation relating to patient assaults on clinical staff at the:
a) Royal Brisbane and Women's
b) Princess Alexandra
c) Gold Coast University
d) Cairns
Hospitals

And for this information to include:
a) occupation of the staff member
b) gender
c) type of assault
d) date and time of day
e) location - eg emergency dept
f) gender and age of assailant
g) any details as to the reason of assault, eg whether drug affected and more specifically whether drug ice was involved.

Date range:  01 July 2012 - 01 July 2015.

Amended Scope:

All documentation relating to patient assaults on staff at the:
a) Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
b) Princess Alexandra Hospital
c) Gold Coast University Hospital
d) Cairns Hospital.

And for this information to include:
a) occupation of the staff member
b) gender
c) type of assault
d) date and time of day where it does not identify a matter
e) location - eg emergency department
f) gender and age of assailant
g) any details as to the reason of assault, eg whether drug affected and more specifically whether drug ice was involved.

Date range:  01 July 2012 - 01 July 2015.

All reports, briefing notes, emails, notes and other documentation containing references to the suspected and confirmed food poisoning and salmonella cases at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (BCEC) that occurred from food eaten in February and March 2015.

Date range:  01 February 2015 - 07 August 2015.

Documents relating to:

1. The number of applications each year for prosthetic limbs, how many are provided, and at what cost.
2. The number of applications each year for re-fitting of prosthetic limbs, the number provided, and the subsequent cost.
3. Ministerial/executive briefing notes and attachments, and/or reports regarding the provision of prosthetics and related issues.

Date range:  01 January 2013 - 11 August 2015.

Office of the Minister for Health

All documentation, including emails, briefs, memorandums and correspondence, both incoming and outgoing that mention the name Robert Hogue, Rob Hogue or Hogue and any attachments to those documents.

Date range:  14 February 2015 - 10 August 2015.

All documentation, including emails, briefs, memorandums and correspondence, both incoming and outgoing that mention the name Robert Hogue, Rob Hogue or Hogue and any attachments to those documents.

Date range:  14 February 2015 - 10 August 2015.

Office of the Minister for Health

Any emails, letters, briefing notes or memos to the Minister or from the Minister or to a member of the Minister's Office or from a member of the Minister's office regarding a specific trade union, trade unions in general or directly to and from a trade union.

Date range:  14 February 2015 - 16 August 2015.

Documents, specifically reports, briefing notes and attachments and photos/CCTV, relating to incidents of fraud.

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 18 August 2015.

A breakdown of patients in Queensland Health mental health facilities who have left care without permission in the past year. Outline the type of unit from which they left, and the circumstances. Also include when and where they were apprehended/found (including the city) and any that are outstanding. Where there are charges/sentences, provide an indication of how many patients each charge applied to.

Date range:  01 July 2014 - 01 July 2015.

Documents relating to the Hospital Standardised Mortality Rate (HSMR) for each Queensland Hospital as follows:

1. The first two quarters of 2015.
2. The first two quarters of 2014.
3. The first two quarters of 2013.
4. The first two quarters of 2012.

Date range:  01 January 2012 - 30 June 2015.

Revised scope:

Narrowed to capture data for Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Metro South Hospital and Health Service, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service and West Moreton Hospital and Health Service (facility level data).

Documents since August 13, 2015, including briefing notes and attachments, reports, photos and CCTV, relating to hospitals going on bypass - meaning ambulances are being diverted from them, or told not to go to them. This should include documents held by the Office of the Ambulance Commissioner as well as the Director-General of Health.

Date range:  01 July 2014 - 31 August 2015.

Revised scope:

Documents since July 2015, including briefing notes and attachments, reports, photos and CCTV, relating to hospitals on Level 3 Escalation.

Date range:  01 July 2015 - 31 August 2015.

The number of Safety, Health and Environment (SHE) reports on the following issues:

- Radio Faults, number of times radios have failed or been repaired as well as radio faults.
- Fatigue related issues - such as accidents or incidents that have occurred whilst officers have been fatigued.

Date range:  31 August 2013 - 31 August 2015.

Reports, briefing notes and attachments, and spreadsheets in relation to:

1. The number of presentations to hospital emergency departments on weekdays;
2. The number of presentations to hospital emergency departments on weekends;
3. The number of doctors rostered on in emergency departments on weekdays;
4. The number of doctors rostered on in emergency departments on weekends;
5. The number of doctors rostered on for general surgery on weekdays;
6. The number of doctors rostered on for general surgery on weekends;
7. The number of patients who died after being admitted to hospital on weekdays;
8. The number of patients who died after being admitted to hospital on weekends.

Date range:  02 September 2014 - 02 September 2015.

Revised scope:

Reports, briefing notes and attachments, and spreadsheets in relation to:

1. The number of presentations to hospital emergency departments on weekdays;
2. The number of presentations to hospital emergency departments on weekends;
3. The number of patients who died after being admitted to hospital on weekdays;
4. The number of patients who died after being admitted to hospital on weekends.

Date range:  01 July 2014 - 30 June 2015.

Documents, reports and correspondence relating to the Gaythorne and Newstead asbestos investigation.

Date range:  01 October 2014 - 09 September 2015.

Project documents from iEMR implementaiton projects for Cairns Hospital, Mackay Base Hospital, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Lady Cilento Children's Hospital, Princess Alexandra Hospital, The Townsville Hospital and the Gold Coast University Hospital. Specifically documents with any of the following titles:

• Project Brief
• Business Case
• Project Plan
• Project Initiation Document
• Project Close Report
• Lessons Learnt Report
• Post-project review
• Project Charter
• Stakeholder Analysis

Date range:  01 October 2010 - 30 June 2015.

Office of the Minister for Health

All briefing notes, correspondence, emails received by, or generated by, the Minister, the Minister's Office or the Director-General or Director-General's Office that relates to health payroll and rostering issues.

Date range:  01 September 2015 - 17 September 2015.

All briefing notes, correspondence, emails received by, or generated by the Director-General or Director-General's Office that relates to health payroll and rostering issues, including any reference to Workbrain.

Date range:  01 September 2015 - 17 September 2015.

a) All manuals and guidelines in relation to QIADEN DNeasy DNA Tissue Extraction Kit Reference No. 139293717.

b) All manuals and guidelines in relation to QHFSS Quality Information System No. 25335.

c) All manuals and guidelines in relation to QHFSS Quality Information System No. 25336.

d) All manuals and guidelines describing the process of Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction conducted on food, whether cooked or uncooked at the Molecular Chemistry Laboratory.

e) All standard operating procedures in relation to the conduct of Polymerase Chain Reaction on food, whether cooked or uncooked, at the Molecular Chemistry Laboratory current as at 15 April 2014.

f) All standard operating procedures in relation to the maintenance of the Molecular Chemistry Laboratory.

g) All results and reports resulting from proficiency trials performed by the Molecular Chemistry Laboratory.

h) Copies of raw data produced by Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction conducted on samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279, 13PD280, 13PD281, including:
i. real time PCR data;
ii. melt curve analysis data;
iii. time graphs indicating values; and
iv. controls polymerase chain reaction graphs.

i) Copies of control run graphs for bos Taurus, ovis aries, sus scrofa and gallus gallus in cooked form applied by the Food Chemistry Laboratory in the interpretation of results generated by samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279. 13PD280, 13PD281.

j) Copies of melt curve analysis and data applied in the interpretation of samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279. 13PD280, 13PD281.

k) Copies of analysis curves and data used to determine the cycle threshold values used in conducting Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction tests on samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279. 13PD280, 13PD281.

l) Copies of any Polymerase Chain Reaction analytical results of any oil ingredients used to verify the results obtained in samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279. 13PD280, 13PD281.

m) Copies of any quality analysis reports or statistical analysis report indicating the limit of detection of the results obtained by Polymerase Chain Reaction in samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279. 13PD280, 13PD281 as 0.01%.

n) Copies of reports in relation to the samples assigned QHFSS Food Chemistry Laboratory numbers 13PD275, 13PD276, 13PD277, 13PD278, 13PD279. 13PD280, 13PD281.

o) Copies of certificates of accreditation with national or international professional or academic bodies granted to the Food Chemistry Laboratory of the Forensic and Scientific Services Branch of the Health Services Support Agency of the Queensland Government.

Office of the Minister for Health

Any emails, briefing notes, memos or reports regarding pay outcomes for Queensland Health staff, relevant to pay day 23 September 2015 and any associated briefing material or attachments about the payroll system to the Director-General or the Director-General's office.

Date range:  23 September 2015 - 30 September 2015.

Any emails, briefing notes, memos or reports regarding pay outcomes for Queensland Health staff, relevant to pay day 23 September 2015 and any associated briefing material or attachments about the payroll system to the Director-General or the Director-General's office.

Date range:  23 September 2015 - 30 September 2015.

Documents containing information about a uniform trial involving the Queensland Ambulance Service:

a) Any information and/or report or advice in relation to any trials of Chinese uniforms from 2012-2015
b) Any information/communications in relation to the cost of the trials and why the Chinese uniforms were considered unsuitable
c) Any information/communications in relation to ongoing uniform trials with the Queensland Ambulance Service, including uniforms made in Australia or any other country
d) Any information/communication about all related costs of uniform trials, including uniforms made in Australia or any other country.

Date range:  01 January 2012 - 15 October 2015.

Documents containing information about the following companies, Sigtec, Trapeze and their mobile data systems:

a) Any information and/or report and associated costs relating to the install of Sigtec mobile data terminals into Queensland ambulances, including when the installations occurred
b) Any information and/or report about the sale of Sigtec to Trapeze
c) Any information and/or report about the retro fitting of Technisyst mobile data terminals into Queensland ambulances, including associated costs and expected delivery date.

Date range:  01 January 2010 - 15 October 2015.

Revised scope:

Excluded from scope/irrelevant information:

(a) deeds of novation;
(b) powers of attorney;
(c) communications made in connection with giving or obtaining legal advice; and
(d) documents prepared for an estimates committee hearing.

Office of the Minister for Health

Any emails, briefing notes, memos, draft material including draft speaking points, draft press releases, draft briefing notes or any other material regarding the Medical Officers Certified Agreement 4 (MOCA 4) and any associated issues for senior medical officers.

Date range:  21 October 2015 - 23 October 2015.

Any emails, briefing notes, memos, draft material including draft speaking points, draft press releases, draft briefing notes or any other material regarding the Medical Officers Certified Agreement 4 (MOCA 4) and any associated issues for senior medical officers.

Date range:  21 October 2015 - 23 October 2015.

Office of the Minister for Health

All correspondence (including but not limited to) emails, memos, letters, briefing notes and reports within the Minister's office relating to the Member for Cook and/or the Cook Electorate Office.

Date range:  01 July 2015 - 27 October 2015.

Data on doctors rostered on at Gold Coast, PA Hospital and Royal Brisbane as follows:

The number of doctors rostered on in emergency departments on weekdays; the number of doctors rostered on in emergency departments on weekends; the number of doctors rostered on for general surgery on weekdays; the number of doctors rostered on for general surgery on weekends.

This report should capture the last full pay fortnight of the month for the following periods:
December 2013
January 2014
June, July, August 2014
June, July, August 2015.

All internal and external emails, memos, ministerial briefing notes and any other documents concerning the rollout of Queensland Health's integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR).

Any documents related to the contracting of, and the cost of, external consultants involved in the rollout of Queensland Health's integrated electronic Medical Record (ieMR).

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 05 November 2015.

Documents containing the following information about:

(a) Any review and/or evaluation and/or information and/or report on the tender process associated with the large tank at the Sunshine Coast University Hospital which was involved in an accident in October 2015.

(b) Any communications in relation to the accident involving the tank:  including assessments and/or analysis or reasons for the tank accident.

(c) Prior warnings or similar forecasts of the possibility of the accident occurring.

The scope of this request includes any information about the tender process for the work not following standard procedure, and/or any intervention and/or influence associated with the tendering process from external parties.

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 27 November 2015.

Revised scope:

Applicant agreed to remove part (a) from the scope.

All emails, both incoming and outgoing (including attachments) between employees and contractors of the Human Resources Branch of the Office of the Chief Nurse and any officials in the Queensland Nurses' Union (QNU).

Date range:  25 September 2015 - 25 November 2015.

Revised scope:

All emails, both incoming and outgoing (including attachments) between employees and any officials in the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) relevant to the Office of the Chief Nurse (OCN) containing the words policy or policies.

Ministerial briefings submissions and attachments, reports, photos and CCTV relating to breaches of security of hospital patient medical records.

Date range:  01 January 2013 - 02 December 2015.

Revised scope:

Ministerial and/or DG briefs relating to breaches of security of hospital patient medical records since January 1, 2013, including any attachments to the briefs such as submissions, reports, photos, CCTV Footage etc.

14 pages - partial release
DOH-DL 15/16-033

Copies of documents in the possession of Queensland Department of Health that show the terms and conditions pursuant to which prostheses suppliers provide prostheses, and the prices which they charge them, under each SOA number, name and expiry date:

QH970 - Intraocular Lens Implants - 28/02/2015
QH971 - Cardiac Surgical Prostheses and Consumables - 28/02/2015
QH972 - Vascular Interventional and Surgical Prostheses and Consumables - 28/02/2015
QH969 - Orthopaedic Trauma Implants and Accessories - 28/02/2015
QH013 - Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty Implants and Accessories - 31/12/2015
QH013 (Archived) - Hip, Knee and Shoulder Arthroplasty Implants and Accessories - 31/12/2013

Date range:  01 January 2013 - 28 February 2015.

Any emails, briefing notes, internal memos or reports regarding pay outcomes for Queensland Health staff, specifically regarding details of overpayments made from the payroll system. That should include any attachments.

Date range:  13 September 2015 - 18 December 2015.

1. Departmental documents regarding the 1984 report by Dr Mannie Rathus (attached in email to Mines Department), which studied the medical records of more that 7000 Queensland coal miners;
2. Departmental correspondence with miners and trade union representatives regarding the report;
3. Departmental documents and correspondence related to the report's recommendations;
4. Departmental documents and correspondence related to any follow-up of miners identified by Dr Rathus' survey.

Date range:  01 January 1984 - 22 December 2015.

Documents, specifically briefing notes and attachments, reports, photos and CCTV relating to newborn baby mix-ups including mothers given the wrong babies for breastfeeding in Queensland hospitals.

Date range:  01 January 2012 - 21 January 2016.

Documents produced in the last five years containing information about:

1.
(a) the frequency and number of screenings conducted under the Queensland Coal Mine Workers Health Scheme and
(b) the results of screenings
(c) any recommendations and/or analysis and/or communications about the results of such screening and
(d) possible and/or responses by government and/or industry.

2.
(a) black lung (pneumoconiosis).

Date range:  01 January 2011 - 21 January 2016.

All Service Level Agreements between Queensland Health and Mater Misercordiae Public Hospital and Health Service.

All contracts or funding documentation between Queensland Health and Mater Misercordiae Public Hospital and Health Service relating to funding relating to employee expenses, employee pay and Executive remuneration.

All correspondence and/or documentation between the Queensland Health and Mater Misercordiae Public Hospital and Health Service in relation to funding relating to employee expenses, employee pay and Executive remuneration.

Date range:  01 March 2012 - 22 January 2016.

Revised scope:

Documents, specifically Service Level Agreements and official correspondence between Queensland Health and the Mater Misercordiae Public Hospital and Health Service in relation to funding relating to employee expenses, employee pay and Executive remuneration.

Date range:  Financial years 2013-14 and 2014-15.

Documents relating to suicides of Queensland persons 2012-13, 13-14, and 14-15 showing how many of those people were discharged from hospital within a specified time frame. In some cases the measurement is one week, five weeks or one month.

Date range:  2012 - 2014.

Briefing notes and attachments, reports, correspondence, audits and reviews, relating to forensic testing delays and backlogs, workplace pressure in keeping up with demand and turnaround times, including information relating to toxicology result delays/backlogs.

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 18 February 2016.

Reports, ministerial/executive briefing notes and attachments, Senate Estimates briefings, photos and CCTV, since 1 January, 2015 relating to:

1. Babies born to asylum seekers which have had to receive medical treatment in Queensland and then been sent back to Nauru;
2. Babies born to asylum seekers which have had to receive medical treatment in Queensland and are still in Australia.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 23 February 2016.

Transport logs from Queensland Ambulance Service regarding patient transfers between Atherton and Cairns Hospital, as follows:

1. Number of transfers
2. Dates of transfers
3. Time taken to complete each transfer
4. Facility transferred to/from.

Date range:  01 July 2015 - 31 January 2016.

Documents, specifically reports, briefings and attachments and photos and CCTV/video, relating to de-radicalisation program referrals including the number of those that have been referred to this program from Queensland, the age range and the reasons why since 1 July, 2015.

Date range:  01 July 2015 - 01 March 2016.

Statistics on number of times ambulance or care flight has had to attend Black Duck Valley Moto Park, 54-90 Browns Road, East Haldon, recently and historically.

Date range:  Unspecified.

Part 1 - previous disclosure log documents
QHDL 12/13-001
Part 2 - 1 page - full release
DOH-DL 15/16-045

Documents (working spreadsheets) by or to Queensland Health payroll or QSuper Income Protection regarding employees of Queensland Health on leave from work on workcover or QSuper due to being unable to work.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 18 March 2016.

Revised scope:

Metro South Hospital and Health Service, Metro North Hospital and Health Service, Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service, Townsville Hospital and Health Services and Cairns & Hinterland Hospital and Health Service.

35 pages - full release
(Identifiable information removed as irrelevant and other colums were removed as not in scope)
DOH-DL 15/16-046

Documents, such as reports, briefing notes and correspondence, relating to:

Drug driving test pathology results which differ from previous drug tests (i.e. the saliva tests and the Drager 5000 tests) undertaken by police.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 22 March 2016.

Any Queensland Health submission to the federal review of private health insurance and/or primary care taskforce since 1 July 2015.

Date range:  01 July 2015 - 24 March 2016.

The number of pregnancy terminations conducted at Queensland Health public hospitals involving a foetus with a gestation period of 20 or more weeks.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 31 December 2015.

All briefing notes, emails, paper writings, documents, reviews and telephone messages to the Director-General relating to decisions and proposals to or not to contract for non-clinical services, staffing and resourcing to the Sunshine Coast University Public Hospital.

Date range:  01 September 2015 - 29 February 2016.

File titles and/or subject matter and/or cost details of all 'consultancies' carried out for and/or commissioned by Queensland Health.

Date range:  2013/14 and 2014/15 financial years.

Revised scope:

File titles and/or subject matter and/or cost details for all 'consultancies' greater than $100,000 engaged during the financial years of 2013/14 and 2014/15 for and/or commissioned by Queensland Health.

Office of the Minister for Health

Any emails between staff in the Ministerial office (including with or from the Minister) that mention 'Springborg, LNP and voting' from 8:30pm on 21 April 2016 until 24 April 2016.

Date range:  21 April 2016 - 24 April 2016.

Office of the Minister for Health

Any work-related information communicated between either the Minister and the Minister's Chief of Staff and Rob Hoge and/or Tess Bishop (the department), through WhatsApp.

Date range:  01 February 2016 - 26 April 2016.

1. Number of Queensland Ambulance Service attendances to Trampoline Park (name/address withheld);
2. Reported nature of the injury attendances at the said park (i.e. suspected fracture, laceration) within such attendance reports/calls for service;
3. Number of attendances of persons at any Gold Coast based Public Hospital from injuries suspected / reported to have been caused at the said park;
4. Any documents (for example: reports, dossiers, investigations, case files, documented opinions, internal / external memos and letters / emails to park operators) held by Queensland Health regarding Trampoline Parks operating on the Gold Coast.

Date range:  01 January 2014 - 19 April 2016.

Office of the Minister for Health

Emails, written notes or Minutes recorded by, the Minister or his Office, of any and all meetings held between the Minister for Health (since the Minister was appointed Minister) with either:

(a) the West Moreton HHS Chief Executive;
(b) the West Moreton HHS Board Chair; or
(c) the West Moreton HHS Chief Executive and the West Moreton HHS Board Chair.

Date range:  14 February 2015 - 23 May 2016.

Queensland Audit Office interim audit for 2008-2009, dated 1 May 2009, and any and all additional Audit reviews and assessments of the Queensland Health Payroll Project.

Date range:  01 May 2009 - 31 December 2012.

Office of the Minister for Health

All internal emails in the Minister's Office regarding Treasurer Curtis Pitt. Also include references to the Treasurer, Pitt, Curtis, CP or the Member for Mulgrave.

Date range:  01 January 2016 - 30 May 2016.

Documents, specifically ministerial briefing notes and attachments, reports, CCTV/video footage and photos in relation to assaults in Queensland hospitals, since 1 January 2015.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 07 June 2016.

3 pages - full release
(Irrelevant information such as patient and staff identifying information, telephone numbers, file numbers and reference numbers has been removed)
DOH-DL 15/16-058

Administration of medication via telephone verbal orders (tvo) from medical practitioners in accordance with the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation Act 1996 regarding the practice and procedure in Belmont Private Hospital.

Date range:  08 September 2015 - 05 May 2016.

Documents since 1 January 2015, specifically incident reports and related CCTV / body camera / video footage and photos of incidents resulting in weapons being confiscated from patients.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 13 June 2016.