Queensland Ambulance Service

Now, a spokesman for the minister has given a response that one sent in written statement.

The Queensland Ambulance Service maintains a comprehensive emergency response capability throughout southwest Queensland, including 24-7 fixed wing retrieval service and road ambulance operations.

That's the RFDS and the Queensland Ambulance Service.

So hang on.

Are you saying, and is the minister saying that there's no place for Life Flight to get any funding from the state government? Is that what that statement is insinuating? Now, Life Flight Base was majority funded by, in this state, was majority funded by the state.

The ABC reported that Sam was arrested after officers went to the address.

The Australian Financial Review reported that the Queensland Ambulance Service paramedics were called to a private residence in Noosa, and they assessed the female, who we now know is his wife, who was described as stable, and she declined transport to the hospital.

The following day, Sam was charged with two offences.

They were assault, occasioning bodily harm in a domestic violence context and strangulation in a domestic setting.

And so we founded the business, as you do in your lounge room, with a great idea and no idea at the same time of how you're going to do it.

And we essentially got some early runs on the board with Queensland Ambulance, I think was our first customer.

And the concept just grew from there.

So basically what we do is we put satellite connectivity onto vehicles to connect everything for public safety.

I mean, we obviously don't know the extent, but we do get some really great stories from our customers.

This, in fact, on Thursday, we have our Haifa conference.

and someone's coming down from Queensland Ambulance to come and tell our staff some of these stories that we never get to hear.

So even if you're in the back end of the production line turning a screwdriver, they get to understand that everything we're pushing out of there has such a purpose to it, and they get to hear the real stories.

I just wanted to say up front, though, that the views that I have today that I'll chat about are my own.

They're not the views of the Queensland Ambulance Service, which is where I do have the pleasure of working at the moment, and I'll talk a little bit about that work because that's also the setting of my research project for the last seven years.

But I guess going back to the beginning of my career, like many in our profession, I started working in the no patient lift era in the mid 1990s as a very young physiotherapist.

I'd only graduated a few years ago.

That was probably a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to have that role and be involved in that wonderful project.

And then I've worked in other parts of Queensland health, in health and safety teams.

I've ended up in the Queensland Ambulance Service.

So a lot of healthcare workers, I guess, that I've worked with in my time.

Paramedics found Nick Bradford dead inside his Annerley home more than two hours after he called triple zero complaining of chest pains.

He lived a short distance from Princess Alexandra Hospital, prompting Queensland Ambulance Service to ask if he could transport himself, but he declined, citing his condition.

Health Minister Tim Nicholls yesterday issued a public apology to the Bradford family, who found out about the death through news reports on Thursday.

The coronial inquest will begin on Monday.

But anyway, so I came home and I said, "Okay, let's do it." The kids were all informed.

Um, Queensland Ambulance were extraordinary.

Karuna had called them because it became clear we couldn't toilet him in our bed upstairs, and it wasn't big enough.

So they organized a hospital bed downstairs, and we called all the kids.

They might take it lightly, and if the people around them aren't informed, they will as well.

So one of the things that we have done up here is work with Queensland Ambulance around, um, education and training, and we're saying, you know, if the police go out to a domestic violence incident involving strangulation, they really need advice from Ambulance, that the police aren't medicos to make that assessment if someone's gonna be okay.

'Cause a CT scan's really the only way to know, isn't it?

That's, the CT angiogram, I guess, is what they call gold standard.