The Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service says claims that job losses affecting services are wrong.
Using figures obtained under right to information, the Queensland Nurses Union says more than 345 jobs have been cut in the region.
Health service chief executive Adrian Pennington says over a two-year period, the service has cut 73 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs but there are 89 more doctors.
Mr Pennington says the shift to focus on clinicians rather than administration has improved hospital performance.
“At this moment in time across all categories of wait within Queensland, Wide Bay Hospital and Health Service has the best outpatient waiting times in all specialties, the best endoscopy waiting times across the board and some of the lowest surgical waiting in Queensland,” he said.
“We are, in fact, you cannot get any better than this in a short space of time.
“We have a net loss over a two-year period of 73 FTE across a broad range of professions but most importantly, from our perspective, we’ve actually increased the number of medical staff substantially during the period.
“This is not really about head counts or numbers of individual groups, it’s about the range of services and the quality of services that you provide.”