The Princess Alexandra Hospital, at Woolloongabba. Photo: Michelle Smith
The Queensland Nurses Union will urgently write to Queensland Health today seeking talks over statewide nurse safety after two chilling abduction attempts near Princess Alexandra Hospital over the weekend.
Hospital staff will on Monday morning receive a reminder that security staff are available to walk or drive them to their cars.
One nurse was almost abducted returning to her car at Annerley near Princess Alexandra Hospital on Saturday night.
Soon afterward, a security guard flashed his torch inside the car of two men following three women at a nearby train station.
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The two men sped off, but not before he took the car registration and sent it on to police.
Detective Inspector Geoff Acreman said the guard gave police the same description as the first victim.
Queensland Nurses Union secretary Beth Mohle said she would this morning write to Queensland Health?s senior management and to the PA Hospital?s management.
??We need to be contacting Queensland Health tomorrow (Monday) to do a whole-of-state review about parking arrangements and safety and security,?? Ms Mohle said.
??We need to be monitoring the impacts of the cutbacks because it is normally the security guards that would do that operational sort of work."
Ms Mohle said the PA Hospital had a good safety record with staff, and it provided a shuttle bus and security staff to accompany nurses to their cars.
??The PA is pretty good, but we need to follow up with the local management at the PA Hospital to find out what actually happened in that Annerley incident,?? Ms Mohle said.?
Ms Mohle said the PA Hospital had an onsite parking station which had security staff.
??But the cost is the factor here, it is not cheap. It is the same at Royal Brisbane. The parking there is not cheap there either,?? she said.
??People make an assessment about whether they are prepared to pay that and some don?t want to pay that and they park on the street.??
Ms Mohle said the two incidents were sobering.?
??It is just outrageous that women are not safe on the streets.?It is extreme, I know, but is there any more we can do????
She said car parking arrangements had become a long-running source of dispute between Queensland nurses and Queensland Health.
??Particularly at the big metropolitan facilities like Royal Brisbane and the PA,?? she said.
??The car parking on site is provided by private operators and they operate for profit.??
Ms Mohle said the emphasis should be over providing ??affordable and safe?? car parking for staff working 24 hours a day.
She said the Prince Charles and QEII hospital provided free car parking for staff because they had the room.
She said staff parking had also become a problem for Queensland Health facilities in Townsville and Cairns as those centres expanded.
??The big facilities where they have had extensions they have taken the parking away," she said.
??So it is a long-standing vexed issue and it is one that we are forever campaigning around at a local level.??
PA Hospital management on Sunday night said that the attempted abduction of one of its nurses was now a ??police investigation.??
??We are unable to provide specific comments.?The nurse in question is being offered every possible support including counselling,?? a hospital spokeswoman said in a statement.
??After-hours parking and a shuttle bus is available to staff.?A security guard is also available to walk or drive them to their car on request.??
Police confirmed they had traced the registration number of a car allegedly involved in both incidents to an address in Toowoomba.
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