Jackie Sinnerton

Brisbane

Journalist at The Courier-Mail

Journalist at News Corp [email protected] All opinions expressed are my own

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Frightening levels of health workforce turnover sparks plan

Jan 23, 2025 | townsvillebulletin.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

Rural Queensland is losing healthcare workers at a frightening rate — five per cent higher than in metro areas — sparking a dire warning from the peak medical body that a 30 per cent rise in hiring needs to happen by 2032.
Frightening levels of health workforce turnover sparks plan

Jan 23, 2025 | news.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

Rural Queensland is losing healthcare workers at a frightening rate — five per cent higher than in metro areas — sparking a dire warning from the peak medical body that a 30 per cent rise in hiring needs to happen by 2032.
Frightening levels of health workforce turnover sparks plan

Jan 23, 2025 | cairnspost.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

Rural Queensland is losing healthcare workers at a frightening rate — five per cent higher than in metro areas — sparking a dire warning from the peak medical body that a 30 per cent rise in hiring needs to happen by 2032.
‘Band-Aid fix’: New walk-in clinics won’t ease pressure on hospitals

Jul 1, 2024 | ntnews.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

The state’s peak medical body claims the government’s latest addition to the mishmash of confusing health care options makes no sense and will do little to ease pressure on emergency departments. It comes after the government announced the first of four nurse-only walk-in health clinics would open within weeks in Brisbane city, another service in addition to Urgent Care clinics and satellite hospitals.
State government to open Brisbane’s first fixed pill testing site, plans for more

Apr 3, 2024 | cairnspost.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

A fixed pill testing site will be rolled out in Brisbane city within a couple of weeks with a second to be opened mid-year in a yet to be decided location. The announcement by the Queensland government comes after the state’s first festival drug checking service staff seized more than a dozen samples that were unsafe and persuaded visitors to cut down on substance intake. At the Rabbits Eat Lettuce Festival near Warwick, , 257 festival goers visited the drug testing tent.
Hundreds dead as data shows Covid transmission in hospitals

Jan 25, 2024 | couriermail.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

QLD NewsDon't miss out on the headlines from QLD News. Followed categories will be added to My News. One Queenslander a day is dying after contracting Covid while being treated in hospital for other medical conditions. The shocking data has been revealed by worried doctors who say their patients are dying unnecessarily in the state’s hospitals due to inadequate infection control. The data, obtained through Right to Information, shows the full extent of Covid-19 transmission in hospitals.
Queensland Health computer system crashes forcing medicos to find paper patient records

Nov 21, 2023 | couriermail.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton |Hayden Johnson

There are reports of chaos across Queensland hospitals as the computer system that provides digital patient records has crashed, with medicos forced to access information through paper records. It is believed the Integrated Electronic Medical record has been down since 8am. It is understood the system issue is within Queensland Health and not the Queensland Ambulance Service. Queensland Health has been contacted for comment. More to come
Why Jewish question is asked at Queensland breast screening clinic

Oct 18, 2023 | couriermail.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton

As tensions in Australia rise over the conflict in the Middle East, one of the state’s most high-profile breast screen clinics accepts that a booking portal question asking patients if they are of Jewish origin is “sensitive due to current global events”. But the surprise question posed by The Wesley Hospital’s Breast Clinic is about health not religion and is an internationally approved breast cancer screening tool used in clinics worldwide. Are you of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage?
Health crisis: No doctors, less medical staff than 18 years ago

Sep 23, 2023 | geelongadvertiser.com.au | Jackie Sinnerton |Mohammad Alafeshat

POPULATIONS of Queensland towns have no dedicated doctor in their local hospital and the majority of bush facilities are operating with fewer doctors or nurses than they did 18 years ago, government payroll data shows. The “disturbing” extent of the regional health workforce crisis is exposed in the Queensland government’s Hospital Performance website which compares workforce from June 2023 to 2005.