{"id":598465,"date":"2026-08-28T08:58:20","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598465\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:58:20","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T08:58:20","slug":"nearly-900-patients-contacted-after-colonoscopy-audit-at-warwick-and-goondiwindi-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/598465\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly 900 patients contacted after colonoscopy audit at Warwick and Goondiwindi Hospitals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Queensland Health is in the process of contacting almost 900 patients who had colonoscopy procedures at two southern Queensland hospitals after it was found that a doctor may not have met expected standards of care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The health department says an audit raised questions about a private specialist&#8217;s procedures at Goondiwindi and Warwick hospitals between 2023 and 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The quality assurance audit identified 890 patients whose procedures may not have met the expected standard of care.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The specialist is no longer providing colonoscopy services within Darling Downs Health facilities, and a referral has been made to the Office of the Health Ombudsman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Darling Downs Health acting chief executive Louise Van Every said there was no evidence that any patients had been harmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;Some of the procedures performed showed gaps in documentation and did not allow us to be sure the procedures met expected standards for colonoscopy care,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Ms Van Every said the department was being proactive and contacting all impacted patients, despite 92 per cent being private patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">&#8220;To make sure they are aware of the concerns identified and know where to go for appropriate follow-up care,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Queensland Health is in the process of contacting almost 900 patients who had colonoscopy procedures at two southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":598466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[33672,30674,270661,163,521,4144,85,46,2409,8554,186643,111765],"class_list":["post-598465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-audit","tag-colonoscopy","tag-goondiwindi","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medicine","tag-private","tag-queensland-health","tag-warwick"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/598466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}