Employees in areas such as preventative health as well as others in non-clinical and administrative positions are in the Government's crosshairs as it seeks to reduce the department's $18 million-a-day wages bill.
More than 7000 job cuts have already been identified by the Government across the entire public service.
However, large cuts in Health are needed to achieve the Newman Government's 20,000 target, a figure that emerged out of the Commission of Audit report into the state's finances.
Unions are concerned the cuts will have dire impacts on frontline services with clinical staff being dragged away from patients to complete necessary paperwork.
"People have to pick up administration work and other operation work if those staff aren't going to be there," Queensland Nurses Union state secretary Beth Mohle said yesterday.
Ms Mohle said the union did not believe the Government's economic rationale for cutting jobs, particularly given international conditions.
"Any government should just be ashamed of themselves in cutting jobs in the current environment," she said.
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