Queensland Health is the department of the Government of Queensland responsible for operating and administering the public health system of the Australian State of Queensland. It is responsible to the State's Health Minister Lawrence Springborg and its Director-General is Tony O'Connell. In 2010, Queensland Health had approximately 78,000 employees across the state.
After significant problems with a new payroll system and the theft of $16 million the state government is replacing the department on 1 July 2012 with two new entities.
In the mid-1940s Queensland was the first state in Australia to introduce free and universal public hospital treatment, a policy that some other states followed.
Read more about Queensland Health: Jayant Patel, 2005 Restructure, Health Quality and Complaints Commission, Payroll Problems, Abolishment, 2012 Restructure
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