{"id":174331,"date":"2025-09-28T01:53:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174331\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T01:53:30","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T01:53:30","slug":"ndp-outlines-health-care-recruitment-and-retention-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/174331\/","title":{"rendered":"NDP Outlines Health Care Recruitment and Retention Plan"},"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\/dinn-st-clares.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"NDP Outlines Health Care Recruitment and Retention Plan\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Dinn outside St. Clare&#8217;s Hospital in St. John&#8217;s (VOCM News)<\/p>\n<p>The NDP has released its plan to address recruitment and retention in the healthcare system. <\/p>\n<p>The plan is called NL Cares, and will cost $25.6-million per year by 2029\/2030, according to the party. <\/p>\n<p>Highlights of the plan include the hiring of 1,000 new healthcare workers, a province-wide expansion of the travel nurse locum program, the creation of 20 new seats at the MUN medical school, and the creation of a single Office for Medical Professional Recruitment. <\/p>\n<p>Under retention, some of the initiatives include setting up an independent Health Sector Safety Council, giving workers more ability to self-schedule where appropriate, reviewing the current Job Evaluation system, and working with frontline staff and stakeholders to create safe hours legislation. <\/p>\n<p>On that last point, Dinn says there are many industries that have mandatory rest periods, but in healthcare, workers are mandated overtime even when they are exhausted. <\/p>\n<p>Dinn says they will mandate what is safe so that people are not being driven from such professions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Jim Dinn outside St. Clare&#8217;s Hospital in St. John&#8217;s (VOCM News) The NDP has released its plan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174332,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":{"0":"post-174331","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\/174331","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=174331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174331\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}