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<act title="Hospital and Health Boards (Safe Nurse-to-Patient and Midwife-to-Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2015" bill.title="Hospital and Health Boards (Safe Nurse-to-Patient and Midwife-to-Patient Ratios) Amendment Bill 2015" year.introduced="2015" no="248" type="bill" amending="pure" bill.no="248" bill.type="government" act.type="publicgeneral" print.type="bill.first" introduction.date="2015-12-01" parliament.no="55" id="bill-2015-248" version.desc.id="162904c2-634c-48db-a876-d4a641946d44" version.series.id="dbd85a6c-60ba-493c-bff0-2865b387c136" publication.date="2015-12-01" assent.date="2016-05-25">
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					<txt break.before="1">An Act to amend the <i>Hospital and Health Boards Act 2011</i> to provide for minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and midwife-to-patient ratios and other workload matters for public sector health services to ensure patient safety and the delivery of high quality health services</txt>
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					<txt break.before="1">The Parliament of Queensland enacts—</txt>
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					<txt break.before="1">This Act may be cited as the <legref jurisd="QLD" type="act" check="unknown">
							<name emphasis="yes">Hospital and Health Boards (Safe Nurse-to-Patient and Midwife-to-Patient Ratios) Amendment Act 2015</name>
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				<heading id="note-he" guid="_dbc6371d-68fb-4626-bd3c-165faa823c2d">Editor's note—</heading>
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					<txt break.before="1">See the PDF rendition for the content of this legislation.</txt>
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										<txt break.before="1">&#169; State of Queensland 2016</txt>
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