SIX Queensland doctors have been referred to police and risk facing criminal charges over the harm or death of their patients.
Health minister Lawrence Springborg says up to 11 medical bungles had been attributed to one practitioner.
The potential police action was one of four recommendations in a report from top criminal law specialist and former crown prosecutor Jeffrey Hunter SC into allegations of medical malpractice by Queensland doctors.
That report was sparked by former medical board investigator turned whistleblower Jo Barber, who lifted the lid on the issue last year.
Mr Springborg says incidents in the report were from public and private hospitals and private clinics from across the state.
It will prompt law changes to alter the way medical malpractice claims are handled in the future, he says.
"Mr Hunter's findings highlight the need to strengthen control and responsiveness at the state level," he said in a statement.
Independent MP Peter Wellington referred Ms Barber's complaints to the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) in May last year.
Ms Barber claimed to have evidence of a doctor murdering a patient, manslaughter, and doctors with alcohol or drug addictions.
Mr Springborg has not revealed what the allegations referred to police entail.
However, he said it will be up to police whether charges are actually laid.
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