Disclosure Log 2017-2018

57 pages – full release
(Irrelevant information such as names of cruise ship personnel, mobile telephone numbers, and personal email addresses has been removed. Other information not within the scope of the application has been removed.)
DOH-DL 17/18-015-001
DOH-DL 17/18-015-002
DOH-DL 17/18-015-003
DOH-DL 17/18-015-004

1. All current and past versions of the Health Services Directive No. QH-HSD-008:2012 - 'Own Source Revenue - Central Coordination of Fees and Charges Increases and Category "C" Negotiation and Acquisition' (the directive);

2. All written communications from the Director General, Queensland Health about the application and effect of the directive (and repeal if applicable); and

3. All written communications (including other directives) from the Director General, Queensland Health about charges and fees applicable where there is a Third Party compensation claim.

Date range: Unspecified.

A copy of a report prepared by Professor David Wells as a review of the Clinical Forensic Medicine Unit (CFMU), Health Support Queensland, in 2015/2016. This report resulted in recommendations being made as to service delivery in the South East Region/ Gold Coast & Logan/ Southport Office and a review of staffing numbers.

Please provide any statistics, data or other information given by the CFMU for the purposes of preparing or commissioning this report. In addition we request data be provided on the number of examinations, statements and reports produced by each officer or Forensic Medical Officer.

Of particular interest are those statistics, data and other information which relate to the services in the South East Regions/ Gold Coast & Logan/ Southport Office compared to the Brisbane Office.

Revised Scope:

A copy of a report prepared by Professor David Wells as a review of the Clinical Forensic Medicine Unit, Health Support Queensland, in 2015/2016.  This report resulted in recommendations being made as to service delivery in the South East Region/Gold Coast & Logan/Southport Office and a review of staffing numbers.

Please provide any statistics, data or other information given by the CMFU to Professor Wells for the purposes of preparing or commissioning this report, including any data on the number of examinations, statements and reports produced by each officer or Forensic Medical Officer.

Date range:  Unspecified

99 pages - full release
9 pages - partial release
(Personal information removed as irrelevant)
DOH-DL 17/18-024

Information from the Queensland Health Ethical Standards Databases on allegations regarding QAS paramedics engaged in theft, trafficking and use of drugs of dependence, including stealing /tampering with/ replacing/ stealing fentanyl ampoules.

Please include details of the allegation itself, the type of drug (if known), and in the case of a completed investigation, the outcome of that investigation (e.g. dismissal).

Revised Scope:

Information from the Queensland Health Ethical Standards Databases on allegations regarding QAS paramedics engaged in theft, trafficking and use of drugs of dependence, including stealing/tampering with/replacing/stealing fentanyl ampoules.

Please include details of the allegation itself, the type of drug (if known), and in the case of a completed investigation, the outcome of that investigation (e.g. dismissal).

All incident reports and/or reports and/or emails and/or memos and/or statistics and/or briefings mentioning and/or related to Ambulance Queensland random drug and alcohol tests on paramedics between 2010-2017.

Date range: 01 January 2010 - 06 December 2017.

Documents, specifically ministerial/executive briefing notes and attachments, reports, audits, powerpoint presentations, internal correspondence relating to unexpected deaths of patients:

a) in the emergency department
b) in ambulances waiting to get into the emergency department and
c) patients who are waiting for admission to hospital.

Date range: 01 January 2017 - 15 January 2018.

Please limit searches to the Director-General and Deputy Director-Generals for the Department of Health.

Excludes documents subject to:
Cabinet in confidence
Parliamentary privilege
Current police investigations
Coronial enquiries

Excludes:
Work mobile numbers

Office of the Minister for Health

All documents in the email account of the former minister for Environment, Steven Miles and/or staff with the words "TerraCom / Orion Mining / Blair Athol or Jim Soorley."

Date range:  01 June 2016 - 01 November 2017

Documents relating to, for the 2017 calendar year period:

1. The number of hoax calls made to the Queensland Ambulance Service.

2. The audio conversation of 5 hoax or nuisance calls made to the Ambulance Service.

Date range 01 January 2017 - 31 December 2017

Documents which show consideration of the demand for hospital beds that would be better met by aged care facilities and the trend of this demand in the short, medium and long term.

Date range:  01 January 2016 - 07 February 2018

The thirty (30) most recent Ministerial Briefing Notes and attachments for the period prior to and including 23 January 2018, provided to the Minister, that are not related to:

1. Administrative duties, ie. approving someone's holiday, catering expense or other internal staffing requirement.

2. Invitation or event or awards proceedings that the Minister has been invited to and needs to respond to.

3. Documents that have been designed specifically and used in Cabinet or Parliament.

4. Overseas travel reports - ie. reports by people who have travelled overseas discussing the trip.

5. Proforma letters or correspondence with members of the public.

6. Requests for extensions in time and funding.

7. Annual reports.

8. Meeting dates or attendance.

The request is for briefing notes on different subjects and the most recent if for the same subject.

Duplicates, publicly available documents, media statements/reports/articles/correspondence with media are excluded.

Drafts are excluded if there is a final document.

Documents, specifically ministerial briefing notes and attachments, reports, relating to mental health, excluding individual patient treatment reports.

Searches limited to the Office of the Director-General and the Deputy Director-General Clinical Excellence Division.

Date range:  01 January 2017 - 14 February 2018

Documents, specifically reports, ministerial briefings notes and attachments, body-worn camera footage and CCTV and photos, relating to assaults on hospital staff or emergency workers.

Date range:  01 January 2017 - 14 February 2018

Revised Scope:

Reports relating to assaults or acts of aggression on hospital staff or emergency workers, excluding verbal and threatened physical behaviour.

Date range:  01 January 2017 - 14 February 2018

Office of the Minister for Health

Information concerning correspondence "C-ECTF-18/405" dated 13 February 2018 from Minister Miles to Deb Frecklington MP ("the Correspondence"), specifically:

- a copy of the transmission email which sent the Correspondence to the Nanango Electorate Office;

- the relevant extract from the correspondence register evidencing when and how the Correspondence was sent;

- the meta-data of the electronic record of the Correspondence, showing the date of creation and last edit date of the Correspondence;

- any briefing note or approval document or request for the creation of the Correspondence; and

- any internal emails sent by the Minister and his staff discussing the Correspondence.

Date range: 13 February 2018 – 23 February 2018

24 pages – full release
(Irrelevant information such as staff direct phone and mobile phone numbers have been removed)
DOH-DL 17/18-035

Documents that show:

- The number of approvals granted to GPs for patients to use medicinal cannabis (single-patient prescriber pathway);

-  The number of specialists that are eligible to prescribe medicinal cannabis (patient-class prescriber pathway);

-  And any reports and/or advice and/or consideration within Queensland Health on systemic issues that have led to a delay of access of medicinal cannabis to potential patients and/or how the system can be streamlined to improve access to medicinal cannabis.

Date range: 01 January 2017- 12 March 2018

Revised Scope:

- Any reports and/or advice and/or consideration within Queensland Health on systemic issues that have led to a delay of access of medicinal cannabis to potential patients

- And/or how the system can be streamlined to improve access to medicinal cannabis.

To exclude PPQs and Cabinet documents

Date range:  01 January 2017 – 12 March 2018

74 pages – full release
(Irrelevant information such as personal information has been removed)
DOH-DL 17/18-036-001
DOH-DL 17/18-036-002
DOH-DL 17/18-036-003

Documents, specifically ministerial briefing notes and attachments, reports, internal correspondence such as emails relating to:

1. Areas/places/addresses emergency vehicles won't go for safety reasons or "no go" zones;

2. Areas/places/addresses emergency vehicles won't go without a police escort.

Date range: 01 January 2016 – 13 March 2018

Revised Scope:

Reports from February 2016 and February 2017 outlining the following:

- Suburbs within LASNs where emergency vehicles won't go for safety reasons without a police escort

Date range: 01 January 2016 – 13 March 2018

Documents which show the total expenditure in 2016/17 on psychiatric medicine:

(a) in Qld Health mental health facilities; and
(b) Qld Corrective Services facilities

Revised Scope:

Total expenditure in 2016/17 of classified Central Nervous System - Psychotherapy medications for:

a) Medications supplied to 14 Correctional Centres by Central Pharmacy
b) Medications used by HHSs, which will include not only those supplied by Central Pharmacy, but from other means

Date range:  01 July 2016 - 30 June 2017

Documents about offers of Voluntary Employment Redundancies (VERs) to approximately 1500 staff of Queensland Health.

Date range:  01 July 2017 - 28 March 2018

Documents regarding the number of pregnancy terminations conducted involving a foetus with a gestation period of 20 or more weeks for various Queensland hospitals / facilities

Date range:  01 January 2017 - 31 December 2017

22 pages – full release
(Personal information removed as irrelevant)
DOH-DL 17/18-041

Transcript and audio recordings of any triple-zero calls made to the ambulance service on 26 January 2018 which may have been treated as hoax calls.

Date range:  26 January 2018 only

Any documents held centrally and showing the number of acute patients whose health insurance excess has been paid by the department. If this information is summarised with other data breakdowns, for example type of admission, this should also be considered in scope.

Revised Scope:

Any documents held centrally and showing the State-wide dollar value of health insurance excess which has been paid by Queensland Health.

Date range: Last two financial or calendar years

The following records relating to the Emergency Department the Extended Hours Benefit Speciality Allowance:

1. All records and/or documents that make reference to Emergency Department Extended Hours Benefit between 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2015.

2. All records and/or documents that make reference to Emergency Department Speciality Allowance' between 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2015.

3. All records and/or documents that make reference to the amount of 25% payable in relation to work performed in an Emergency Department between 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2015.

4. All records and/or documents that make reference to where a SMO works in an Emergency Department' between 01 January 2007 to 31 December 2015.

Date range:  01 January 2007 to 31 December 2015

Re allegation of misappropriation 2013, as disclosed via DOH 17/18-025:

1. Information about the number of people who have been identified by QAS as patients who may have been administered saline and/ or water instead of pain medication, by QAS paramedics. (date range January 2012 - September 2013)  

2. Information mentioning and/ or related to patients complaining about not receiving adequate pain relief after being administered with medication by paramedics (date range January 2012 - September 2013)  

3. Information mentioning and/ or related to the results of the laboratory testing of the substitute liquid found in the tampered ampoules. (date range June 2013 - May 2014)

Date range: January 2012 to May 2014

Revised scope:

1. Information about the number of people who have been identified by QAS as patients who may have been administered saline and/ or water instead of pain medication, by QAS paramedics. (date range January 2012 - September 2013)

2. Information mentioning and/ or related to the results of the laboratory testing of the substitute liquid found in the tampered ampoules. (date range June 2013 - May 2014)

Date range: January 2012 to May 2014

a) any departmental and/or ministerial briefing notes and/or reports and/or correspondence regarding any concerns about the results of blood lead level tests of children in Mount Isa, and;

b) any internal departmental analysis of the results of blood lead level tests of children in Mount Isa.

Date range:  01 January 2015 - 06 June 2018

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:  27 February 2016 - 11 June 2018

Revised scope:

Date range:  21 January 2017 - 11 June 2018.

Documents and/or reports containing

a) a list of locations under investigation or thought to have the potential of contamination by way of high levels of PFAS type chemicals in water and/or soil and

b) any advice on how to remedy such risk.

Date range:  01 July 2017 - 18 June 2018