SHOCKING Right to Information revelations have exposed Labor has been secretly changing how Queensland Health data is reported to hide the true extent of the Queensland Health Crisis.

An RTI obtained the LNP Opposition has alarmingly revealed in the middle of the Queensland Health Crisis Labor’s priority has been hiding the truth instead of fixing the critical issues within the health system.

Despite explicitly promising not to change how health data is reported, Health Minister Shannon Fentiman has been caught red-handed changing “parameters” for hospital performance data, hiding previously released data in a direct effort to change the health “narrative”.

Some of the alarming revelations about health data cover-up including:​

  • Minister Fentiman withheld health data for political convenience, despite data being ready and overdue for release.
  • The Government was more focused on a “review of existing narrative” for health data, rather than data transparency.
  • Historical health data has been taken offline and “new parameters for graphs/data displayed from Dec 2020” set to deliberately obscure performance.
  • Minister Fentiman misled Queenslanders about hospital capacity, citing “built” rather than “operational” hospital beds – despite previously claiming in media all beds were “operational”.

Leader of the Opposition David Crisafulli said Labor’s actions were indicative of a government in a constant state of chaos and crisis.

“Deliberately deleting data and a sinister focus on changing the story not the system are the symptoms of a rotting Government,” Mr Crisafulli said.

“This is worse than a government caught-up in the wrong priorities, this is a damning disregard for Government integrity.”

Shadow Minister for Health Ros Bates said the actions smacked of a government rotting from the top, prioritising politics above people.

“Labor believes they’re so entitled to remain in power, they’re doing everything possible to hide the truth of the Queensland Health Crisis that’s occurred on their watch,” Ms Bates said.

“Queenslanders deserve to know what’s going on in their hospitals, lives are at stake and Labor is focused on hiding the truth instead of fixing the Queensland Health Crisis.

“Only the LNP has the right priorities for Queensland’s future, including easier access to health services.

“A priority for an LNP government would be making real-time data for our hospitals available within 100 days of election, because only through transparency can we heal the Queensland Health Crisis.”