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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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is reversing a decision announced earlier Thursday regarding leave restrictions during the go-live of the new health information system, CorCare. The reversed decision is based on concerns raised by the employees of NL Health Services, as well as their respective unions, the health authority said in a statement released late […]
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The Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland & Labrador (RNU) is demanding that NL Health Services immediately reverse its directive to restrict vacation and personal leave during the upcoming CorCare go-live. The directive, issued by memo, states that “discretionary leave requests will not be approved” during the freeze period. RNU President Yvette Coffey says this action is […]
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Voters have been inundated with promises since the writ dropped three weeks ago. Provincial parties announcing commitments to fix a health care system that has been heavily scrutinized. Now, the Registered Nurses’ Union is responding to some of those promises. NTV’s Becky Daley reports.
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The new Garden of Hope will open at the Carbonear General Hospital on the 3rd floor today. Gary Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer, will be joined by employees and retirees of Newfoundland Power, as well as Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services representatives, to officially open the garden for the use of cancer patients and […]
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