Emails obtained by 9News present Queensland Well being officers needed to vary the way in which ramping information is recorded in a method that downplayed delays confronted by the state's ambulance service.
In January this 12 months, Derek Dewitt handed away resulting from a coronary heart assault after ready an hour for an ambulance.
He was discovered useless when paramedics arrived, regardless of dwelling 5km away from Redlands Hospital.
"Why is no person there for him, why did he need to die on his bed room ground?" Dewitt's daughter, Mareta Dewitt, mentioned.
Knowledge obtained from 9News from the month earlier than Dewitt's dying present the hospital was dealing with delays of over half an hour in ramping queues for half of all ambulances offloading their sufferers.
The typical ramping time was recorded as 54.2 minutes – time spent ready for obtainable hospital beds earlier than paramedics might get again on the street.
"He would nonetheless be right here had the ambulance come when it was supposed to come back," Ms Dewitt mentioned.
Emails between Queensland Ambulance Service authorities and Queensland Well being present adjustments to the information assortment would skew ramping statistics and their impacts.
QAS authorities pushed again in opposition to the adjustments, which might affect the way in which "misplaced time per affected person" is measured and recorded.
It was additionally proposed wait instances could be measured from when sufferers in an ambulance noticed a triage nurse, slightly than after they first arrived on the hospital in an ambulance.
"I feel this would not be an correct reflection of the scenario, however Nick (Qld Well being) want to have this pushed," an e-mail from a QAS official learn.
The ambulance commissioner replied, "I simply hope we aren't in search of methods to reframe the impacts, as they're very actual for QAS".
It was urged the brand new methodology would probably result in "a discount between 60 to 120 hours per day," in recorded wait instances.
"This cannot be seen as an enchancment, slightly only a completely different seize methodology."
In an announcement, Queensland Well being mentioned no adjustments had been made.
"There was no change to the way in which we report information referring to affected person off stretcher instances and misplaced time per affected person," a spokesperson for Queensland Well being mentioned.