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 President says the Auditor General’s latest report on agency nurses validates what they have been saying, for some time. NTV’s Bailey Howard has the latest.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services says it will launch an internal review and audit of select nursing agencies it worked with to hire travel nurses. The aim is to try to recover possible over-payments. NTV’s Beth Penney has more.
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The Opposition parties are calling it a scandal, and argue the police should be called in to investigate.
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Auditor General Denise Hanrahan released a report Wednesday raising “serious concerns” about how Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is managing contracts for private agency nurses, noting each nurse is costing the province an average of $400,000 a year. “We have serious concerns about how agency nursing contracts are procured and managed by Newfoundland and Labrador […]
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