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Queensland Health is the public health system in Queensland, Australia, comprising sixteen statutory Hospital and Health Services (HHS'), the Department of Health and Queensland Ambulance Service. Each HHS provides health services to its local area, with Children's Health Queensland supporting state-wide paediatric specialist services.
Dr John Gerrard. John Gerrard is currently the Chief Health Officer of Queensland, beginning the role in December 2021.Gerrard has a record in research of emerging infectious diseases and vaccine development, investigating AIDS in Australia and dealing with the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. [3]
As Deputy Director-General of Queensland Health, Donald chaired the 1985 Queensland inquiry into racehorse caffeine doping. [12] This ultimately proved to be embarrassing for the Queensland Government and the Queensland Turf Club when it was found the sticks used in the testing to detect caffeine actually contained caffeine themselves. [13]
There are 21 Queensland Government departments, each responsible for delivering a portfolio of government legislation and policy. [1] Each portfolio area is led by a minister who is a senior member of the governing party in the state Legislative Assembly .
Shortly after his appointment to the Premiership, Crisafulli fired 10 directors-general of several government agencies. [39] Immediately following Crisafulli's election win, he contacted Director-General of Queensland's Department of Premier and Cabinet Mike Kaiser to terminate his position as director-general. [40]
Jeannette Rosita Young AC PSM (born 1963) is an Australian medical doctor and administrator who is currently Governor of Queensland, since 1 November 2021. Before being sworn in as Governor, Young was Chief Health Officer of Queensland from 2005 to 2021. [3] [4]
The Crisafulli Ministry is the current ministry of the Government of Queensland led by David Crisafulli.Crisafulli led the Liberal National Party (LNP) to its second election victory (the first being 2012) since its formation in 2008 after the merger of the state branches of the Liberal and National parties.
Funding for Health and Wellbeing Queensland comes directly through Queensland Health, who receives departmental funding from the Queensland Government. [ 2 ] Between 2020 and 2024, the Queensland Budget will also provide A$ 158.6 million in funding to establish the agency, A$ 133.4 million of which is from appropriations within Queensland Health.