The latest figures for August 2026 show statewide ambulance ramping at 42% across Queensland's 26 largest public hospital emergency departments. That means 42% of patients arriving by ambulance waited longer than 30 minutes to be transferred off a stretcher into the emergency department.
The result is worse than July's 38.7% and only marginally better than the 43.9% recorded in August 2024, just before the Crisafulli government came to power. The August data comes on the back of a late flu season, which the government described as Queensland's worst on record.
Some hospitals are under particular pressure. Logan Hospital recorded ramping levels of 61.8%, while more than half of patients arriving by ambulance at Princess Alexandra Hospital were ramped for more than 30 minutes.
The figures put pressure on Health Minister Tim Nicholls, after Premier Crisafulli tied his cabinet colleague's future to achieving the 30% target before the 2028 election.
Opposition leader Steven Miles said ramping figures would likely continue to worsen. “You can't fix ramping while not delivering growth funding to our hospitals, not having a workforce plan, and not building the new beds that are needed,” he said. “The government still hasn't delivered a workforce plan to deliver the staffing those hospitals need and of course, they've delayed the build of new beds that would provide some relief to the bed block that is choking our emergency departments.”