The provincial government is fattening up its inventive package to attract health care workers including doctors and nurses.

The “Come Home 2022 Initiative” is available to people from Newfoundland and Labrador who have been living outside the province for at least six months. The health worker will have to meet at least one of six criteria and most will have to agree to remain in the province for at least three years—five years for doctors.

Physicians qualify for $100,000 and nurse practitioners $60,000. All others—registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, advanced care paramedics and primary care paramedics—qualify for $50,000.

Workers in those same fields but not from Newfoundland and Labrador also qualify for incentives on a scale of 50 per cent of the amount available to ex-pats.

In order to qualify, applicants are required to have a job offer from one of the regional health authorities, a private clinic or private ambulance operator.