THE Health Minister today must explain how Queensland’s digital medical records system could experience such a catastrophic failure, putting, as health workers say, patient safety at risk.
This is yet another embarrassing bungle on Shannon Fentiman’s watch.
After Labor’s botched roll-out, Queenslanders were promised this wouldn’t happen again.
After hundreds of millions of dollars in program blowouts and multiple outages, we were assured Labor’s failures wouldn’t happen again.
But now clearly Shannon Fentiman has lost control of her portfolio. The IeMR crashes are back.
It’s more chaos and crisis, in the middle of the Queensland Health Crisis, with Queenslanders’ lives on the line.
This places significant pressure on our health workers who are already navigating extraordinary challenges under Labor’s chaos and crisis.
This is what happens when a Minister is more focused on weaselling into the job they want, rather than focusing on the job they have.
It’s another example of Labor’s wrong priorities.
Shannon Fentiman must herself front-up and explain how this outage has happened again under Labor, on her watch.
She refused to front-up at a media conference on the fungal-bungle, she refused to front up at a media conference since the recent ambulance ramping deaths, and today she isn’t fronting-up on the records outage.
Queenslanders deserve answers and the buck stops with Shannon Fentiman.
Hospitals across the State have spent most of today unable to access the digital patient records needed to keep them safe.
Queenslanders deserve better than a Government and Health Minister with the wrong priorities.