Madam Chairperson, I had this very discussion with a variety of organizations and what we continue to put forward to people is that we deal in a very real environment. We take the quarter of a billion dollars of resources that we have available to us to invest in supporting the health and well being of residents of the Northwest Territories. We attempt to use that quarter of a billion dollars to achieve the most effective gains for people. There has been a whole series of areas where we believe we are either accomplishing or able to accomplish an improvement to programs and services. There has been extensive expansion of home care programs in communities so that people can be maintained in their own home in their own community. We are achieving significant success at this point simply in being able to support the training of northern nurses. The work that is going on around the identification of core services, the improvement of clinical standards and the identification of training needs for social workers and counsellors, all point to areas of improvement in our view. In summation, what we have suggested to people that it is our burden to balance the fiscal realities to invest the quarter of a billion dollars wisely and to ensure that we measure the quality of care and seek to improve it wherever we have opportunity. Thank you.
Mr. Ramsden on Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 24th, 1998. See this statement in context.
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
February 23rd, 1998
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Ramsden
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