Newfoundland and Labrador releases 21-recommendation health staffing review
The province is reviewing recommendations on staffing models, forecasting and workforce sustainability with three health-sector unions.
Newfoundland and Labrador has released a review containing 21 recommendations on core staffing in the provincial health system.
The review examined minimum staffing levels and the mix of skills at six Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services sites. It groups its recommendations around four themes: enabling staff to work to their full value, stabilizing core staffing, moving to evidence-based forecasting and reducing structural workload.
The provincial government said on October 26 that it is reviewing the recommendations with the Registered Nurses’ Union Newfoundland and Labrador, NAPE and CUPE.
The release does not announce immediate staffing changes. The recommendations are therefore a basis for further work, not measures that have already been implemented across the system.
For patients and workers, the next practical step is the government and unions’ review of how the proposals could be applied. Timelines, site-by-site impacts and final staffing models have not yet been set out.
Source: Government of Newfoundland and Labrador release, October 26, 2026.
Image: illustrative stock photo of a hospital corridor; it does not show one of the six review sites. Photo by Cory Mogk via Unsplash.
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