{"id":812320,"date":"2026-07-19T14:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812320\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T14:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T14:54:11","slug":"health-minister-demands-serious-changes-to-keep-stavanger-drive-urgent-care-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/812320\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Minister Demands \u2018Serious Changes\u2019 to Keep Stavanger Drive Urgent Care Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The health minister says \u201cserious changes\u201d are needed as the government struggles to keep its urgent care clinic\u00a0on Stavanger Drive open.<\/p>\n

Last weekend, a shortage of available doctors\u00a0meant that services had to be provided virtually through\u00a0Teledoc.<\/p>\n

Lela Evans says the health authority has a \u201cmajor\u201d recruitment and retention problem and she\u00a0went so far as to accuse\u00a0NLHS of\u00a0failing to respond\u00a0to applicants.<\/p>\n

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Health Minister Lela Evans<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me as the minister it is unacceptable but we do have a problem with resourcing, we do have a problem with staffing and in actual fact we do have a major problem with recruitment and retention through Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do hear the stories about doctors you know wanting to come to Newfoundland and Labrador and we hear about nurses applying and nurse practitioners, (where) they don\u2019t actually even get acknowledgement of their email or their call.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (VOCM News) The health minister says \u201cserious changes\u201d are needed as the government struggles to keep its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,269876,44,185074,269873,269875,269877,269874,269870,269871,269872],"class_list":["post-812320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-listen-to-vocm","tag-news","tag-news-radio","tag-news-radio-st-johns","tag-st-johns-fm-radio","tag-st-johns-local-radio","tag-st-johns-radio-station","tag-vocm","tag-vocm-590","tag-vocm-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812320","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=812320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}