{"id":163452,"date":"2025-09-23T09:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163452\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T09:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T09:27:15","slug":"pcs-promise-to-hire-more-er-doctors-rns-and-nps-if-elected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/163452\/","title":{"rendered":"PCs Promise to Hire More ER Doctors, RNs and NPs if Elected"},"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\/09\/tony-wakeham-2.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"PCs Promise to Hire More ER Doctors, RNs and NPs if Elected\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Wakeham and Lewisporte-Twillingate PC Candidate Mark Butt (via PC Party of NL)<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare was the focus as PC leader Tony Wakeham\u2019s campaign tour made a stop in Lewisporte today. <\/p>\n<p>Wakeham says the Lewisporte ER has been left without an in-person doctor several times in recent months, and a new family medicine clinic in the town sits empty because staff have not yet been recruited. <\/p>\n<p>The Tory leader says, if elected, his government will hire more ER doctors, Registered Nurses, and Nurse Practitioners, and introduce programs focused on retaining them. <\/p>\n<p>He says they will build an incentive program that will help cover the overhead costs for healthcare professionals. <\/p>\n<p>The PCs will also adopt a recommendation from the Registered Nurses Union to implement a province-wide program to bring nurses to rural and remote areas. <\/p>\n<p>As well, they have committed to adding 50 new spaces to the MUN School of Nursing, expanding the medical school, and doubling the Nurse Practitioner Program. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Tony Wakeham and Lewisporte-Twillingate PC Candidate Mark Butt (via PC Party of NL) Healthcare was the focus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-163452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163452","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=163452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}