Abolishment
Premier Anna Bligh announced on 12 December 2011 that the department will be dismantled. The decision was attributed to an "unacceptable culture", the theft of $16 million from the department and problems with the payroll system which has hundreds of millions of dollars. The department will cease operations on 1 July 2012.
In January 2012, more details of the reform plan were announced, with an emphasis on health care management to be done locally. The two new departments taking over the role of Queensland Health are Health and Hospitals Queensland and the Health Corporate Services Authority. Bligh described the changes as the biggest decentralisation of the public sector in the state's history.
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