Labor says it would guarantee safe nurse-patient ratios if it wins office at the Queensland election later this month.

Health was one of the key reasons Labor imploded at the 2012 state election, amid the fallout from the costly health payroll saga and the fake Tahitian prince fraud case.

But it was the area Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk headed straight to today, in releasing the first major policy of the campaign.

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Ms Palaszczuk said the LNP Government had cut more than 4,800 positions from hospitals and health since being elected in 2012.

She said a Labor government would recruit an extra 400 nurses, costing $110 million over four years.

Ms Palaszczuk said she wanted one-to-one nurse-patient ratios in intensive care units and four-to-one on general wards.

"I don't want patient safety compromised - neither do the nurses and neither does the public," she said.

But Ms Palaszczuk was not able to say how patient care was suffering.

"I have evidence from the nurses because I've been speaking to these nurses right across the state," she said.

She said more than 1,800 nurses lost their jobs under the LNP.

"They are stretched to the bone - they are working harder than ever before," she said.

Ms Palaszczuk said Labor would also retain the health ombudsman but the role would be reviewed.

However, Health Minister Lawrence Springborg said the LNP had already promised and budgeted for another 2,000 health workers.

"The majority of those being nurses, so up to an additional 1,000 nurses this year alone," he said.

"Labor's proposing to employ only 400 extra nurses over four years, and to pay them at a category that's $7,000 lower per annum than the average for a Queensland nurse."

Premier Campbell Newman said on Wednesday that he would release the LNP's new policies on Sunday, as he was using the first week of the state election campaign to outline the State Government's achievements since 2012.