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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Minister of Health and Community Services Krista Lynn Howell will make a health human resources announcement today in St. John’s. Howell will be joined by Dr. Pat Parfrey the Chief Executive Officer of Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services. The announcement will take place at the Health Innovation Acceleration Centre at noon.
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It’s no secret that wait times in rural emergency rooms across the province, are extreme. As NTV’s Beth Penney tells us, a doctor and nurse in Carbonear have created software, that is working to help patients access emergency room health care, more quickly.
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Today the province’s health authority launched a central intake system for people needing hip and knee replacement surgeries. It’s one of the measures NL Health Services is using to address hospital wait times and bed shortages. NTV’s Bailey Howard tells us more.
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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services says it’s taking steps to address unclaimed bodies at the Health Sciences Centre.
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