{"id":103662,"date":"2025-08-28T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103662\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T18:01:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:01:08","slug":"nurse-and-doctor-staffing-at-nlhs-at-pre-covid-levels-says-health-authority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/103662\/","title":{"rendered":"Nurse and Doctor Staffing at NLHS at Pre-COVID Levels says Health Authority"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/howell-and-parfrey.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Nurse and Doctor Staffing at NLHS at Pre-COVID Levels says Health Authority\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Health Minister Krista Lynn Howell and NLHS CEO Dr. Pat Parfrey (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The province is adding nurses and doctors to the point where the system is where it was pre-Covid in 2019. Nurse vacancies have dropped from 695 three years ago to 280 currently, while the province has 7 per cent more doctors.<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services CEO Pat Parfrey gave an update today on the Health Accord, a transformation of how health care is done.<\/p>\n<p>All but two of the 59 recommendations in the accord either have been implemented, or have been started. Parfrey says they are ahead of schedule on the 5-year plan.<\/p>\n<p>Over 112,000 people are now connected to 21 family care teams. The province hopes to have 35 such teams in place in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>The province is chipping away at some surgical waitlists, now doing more people than are entering the system.<\/p>\n<p>Newfoundland and Labrador is close to signing a 10-year contract with Medavie to run an integrated road and air ambulance system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cancer-stats-nl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278288\" class=\"size-full wp-image-278288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cancer-stats-nl.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-278288\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cancer stats for NL per NLHS (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>NL has highest cancer mortality rate in Canada<\/p>\n<p>This province has the highest cancer mortality rate in the country, but Parfrey says that\u2019s not reflective of a lack of care \u2013 it\u2019s because the incidence of cancer is the highest in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest immediate challenge for NLHS is the implementation of a new information system, and training 23,000 employees on how to use it by next April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Health Minister Krista Lynn Howell and NLHS CEO Dr. Pat Parfrey (VOCM News) The province is adding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-103662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}