Recognizing the crucial role that family doctors play in delivering health care, the province announced this week it intends to work with the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association to begin the process of formally recognizing family medicine as a specialty. The province says having family medicine as a specialty would emphasize the importance of primary […]
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The Association of Allied Health Professionals is calling on the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to expand its newly announced “core staffing review” to include the province’s many allied health professionals—critical frontline workers whose expertise is essential to safe, efficient, and high-quality patient care. The AAHP welcomes any initiative aimed at strengthening the health-care workforce. […]
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A new collaboration has been formed between two First Nations groups and NL Health Services. That’s after a Memorandum Of Understanding was signed in Corner Brook today. NTV’s Becky Daley has more.
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Robotic-assisted surgery is now a reality in Newfoundland and Labrador. Doctors gathered last evening to celebrate the milestone, and say they are seeing improvements in surgical time and patient recovery. NTV’s Beth Penney has more in this report.
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The Nunatsiavut Government’s Department of Health and Social Development (DHSD) and Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) Health Services are advising the public of an outbreak of tuberculosis (TB) within the Labrador Inuit Settlement Area. To reduce the risk from TB, NL Health Services and the DHSD Public Health team have been actively identifying contacts and potential new cases through contact tracing and are supporting access to testing. Facts […]
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