Queenslanders will have to wait until next week to find out how the state government will pay for almost a billion dollars in health announcements made in two days.
Steven Miles on Tuesday said $116 million would be allocated in next week's budget to make 400 nurse navigator positions permanent.
It comes after he announced $396 million for redevelopments at Caboolture Hospital and a new car park there, along with $460 million earmarked for work at Logan Hospital on Monday.
Mr Miles said it was up to Treasurer Jackie Trad to reveal how the state government will pay for those promises, or if it would mean squeezing funds elsewhere within the health system
"I'll leave the broader budget questions to the Treasurer to outline in her budget, but we make no apology for putting healthcare front and centre of what our government does," he said.
"I, as health minister, am not in a position to disclose the full detail of the budget today, that's the treasurer's job, she'll do that next Tuesday."
Free dental care for eligible Queenslanders and subsidies for patients who travel for medical care among $5.66 billion in concessions the state government has committed for the 2019/20 financial year.
It must find money to cover the cost of those schemes along with flood recovery in the north and reversing prison privatisation, amid a write-down in GST and a promise not to increase coal royalties.
Last year's budget revealed total state government debt is projected to increase to about $83 billion by 2021-22, and it is yet to get back its AAA credit rating.
