{"id":692499,"date":"2026-05-25T11:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692499\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T11:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T11:19:10","slug":"government-and-nlma-working-to-recognize-family-medicine-as-specialty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/692499\/","title":{"rendered":"Government and NLMA Working to Recognize Family Medicine as Specialty"},"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\/2026\/05\/doctor-physician-stock.jpg\" class=\"header-image\" alt=\"Government and NLMA Working to Recognize Family Medicine as Specialty\"\/>\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Work is now underway to formally recognize family medicine as a specialty in Newfoundland and Labrador. <\/p>\n<p>The provincial government is working with the medical association on the change.<\/p>\n<p>Doing so would recognize that family doctors are \u201chighly skilled, educated, and dedicated health care providers\u201d and emphasize the importance of them to a person\u2019s overall health and the sustainability of the health system. <\/p>\n<p>It would also reward the time, patient complexity and administrative work that family doctors manage. <\/p>\n<p>The last MOU reached with the NLMA included an increase of 17.5 per cent for family medicine and a total for all physicians up to $240 million.<\/p>\n<p>The next round of negotiations will begin next June. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Work is now underway to formally recognize family medicine as a specialty in Newfoundland and Labrador. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,392],"class_list":["post-692499","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\/692499","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=692499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}