Janelle Miles

The 62-year-old, who took on the job after Jeannette Young's 15-year stint, will return to the Gold Coast University Hospital as an infectious disease physician.

A doctors' lobby group has hit out at the LNP's promise to cancel pill testing at next month's Schoolies Week if the party wins government in Queensland on Saturday.

Scientists have developed tiny biological bridges, each made up of millions of nasal cells, which they hope will encourage nerve cells to regenerate and grow over a patient's spinal cord injury.

Queensland Health director-general Michael Walsh says an investigation into cancer screening services at the Redland Hospital has revealed the "health system let these people down".

The father of a man who took his own life after being prescribed medicinal cannabis says his family was repeatedly sent more cannabis, despite notifying the telehealth platform of his death. The ABC can reveal the founder of the company has been banned from supplying cannabis and two doctors have been suspended.

Shannon Fentiman speaks after the ABC highlighted the case of a woman who took her own life just days after being released from a Queensland public hospital. 

Devastated family members were unaware she had even left the Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital unit when they were told the much loved 41-year old's body had been found on a beach, north of Brisbane.

Politicians regularly trade blows about ambulance ramping, elective surgery waiting lists, and maternity care. But little is being debated about preventative health.

Experts are worried about a proliferation of “single-issue” cannabis clinics opening in Australia, some of them willing to prescribe via telehealth consultations with few checks.

In June this year the service was providing care for 547 children and adolescents, and another 491 were waiting for treatment.