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 Registered Nurses’ Union called out Premier John Hogan today for his response to the AG’s report on private nursing spending. NTV’s Ben Cleary has more in this report.
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Two unions representing health care workers in the province are speaking out on the state of health care in Newfoundland and Labrador. They’re calling recent resignations at St. Clare’s Mercy Hospital, and the Auditor General’s report on travel nurses, symptoms of a system on the brink. From the recent resignation of internal medicine physicians at […]
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The province’s sugar-sweetened beverage tax officially came to an end July 1. Experts have been weighing in on the results. NTV’s Garrett Barry reports.
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Another internal medicine specialist is resigning, this time in Grand Falls-Windsor. But the situation is different from the case at St. Clare’s Hospital in St. John’s. NTV’s Colleen Lewis has more, there is expected to be an impact on cancer care.
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