REDLAND Hospital has recorded 20 code yellow alerts since 2015, with seven declared due to bed shortages.
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Earlier this month, opposition leader David Crisafulli accused the Queensland government of hiding data about the performance of the its hospitals, which he said were simply not coping.
A code yellow is defined in health care facilities as "an event that impacts the facility and may be caused by an internal or external event which may adversely affect service delivery and/or safety of persons requiring a response".
Metro South hospitals which includes Logan, Beaudesert, QEII and PA Hospitals have recorded 86 code yellow alerts since 2015.
Health Minister Yvette D'Ath said while the department did not specifically list bed capacity as an example of a code yellow, a number of health services would use this code when faced with capacity issues.
"Some use other terminology. There are also local variations in the incident management protocols that determine when an facility will activate a code," she said.
Since 2015, 2376 code yellows, or equivalent, have been called in Queensland hospital and health services.
"Most code yellow activations are stood down within 24 hours," Ms D'Ath said.
Mr Crisafulli said Queenslanders were losing their lives in an over-burdened health system where paramedics spent hours waiting for a hospital bed to offload patients, while others call for help, wondering if it would come.
Oodgeroo MP Mark Robinson called on Ms D'Ath for data on ambulance ramping at Redlands over the past six months.
If a patient is ramped, paramedics continued to look after them, either in the back of an ambulance or in a hospital corridor.
February and March figures show the highest months for ramping.
A total of 1233 patients were transported to Redland Hospital in February with a 48.66 per cent off stretcher. In March 1342 patients were taken to the hospital and 40.91 per cent were seen within the recommended 30 minutes of arriving at the emergency department.
Ms D'Ath said Queensland Ambulance Services did not bypass hospitals. Rather paramedics transported patients to the most clinically appropriate hospital.
"When a triage category one patient who is our most critically sick and injured, arrives at the Redland Hospital Emergency Department, they are seen within two minutes 100 per cent of the time," she said.
Ms D'Ath said the government would invest $100 million to help with ambulance delays and patient flow at hospitals, including funding to open more beds in areas with the most demand.
