In a media statement dated 12 August 2018, the Queensland Government announced that it will convene a special summit of experts to assess the provision of maternity services in rural and remote parts of Queensland.
The media statement provided that Queensland Health takes into a range of factors when assessing the ongoing viability of services, and clinicians need to be undertaking sufficient levels of activity in a specialist clinical area to ensure the quality of the service.
The Minister for Health and Minister for Ambulance Mr Steven Miles emphasised the need for sufficient number of clinicians to ensure a viable service model that includes on-call, access to a skilled extended clinical support team and access to intensive care or other more specialised services should things go wrong.
Read the Media Statement here.