Queensland Health does not know how many sexual assault victims have experienced delays in receiving medical care at its hospitals, a new report has found.
In November last year, Health Minister Shannon Fentiman issued a ministerial directive to ensure victims of sexual assault received clinical care within 10 minutes of presenting to a public hospital and health services .
She also noted just one of four audited HHSs recorded the time it took to begin a forensic medical examination of a sexual assault victim. "This was due to staffing shortages. Due to limitations with the HHS data, we could not determine if this was an isolated case."Improvements made but work still to be done
"It has not developed reporting tools to capture when a victim commences an examination, the reasons for any delays, and the quality of forensic samples taken.
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