Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I can appreciate the Member's concern. The reality is, yes, that in many communities that rely on nurses, we're going to rotating through emergency services only because there is a shortage of nurses. We are continuing to work with the nurses. We've done the legislation. We're trying to beef up nurse practitioners. We've put in money to upgrade the alcohol and drug workers -- they're called prevention workers -- and make them employees of the boards to give them benefits. We're adding some mental health workers. We're trying to, as well, improve and add to home care and supported living and continuing care in communities. We did have on the books last year, and they'll be back in the business plan this year, an additional 10 PYs for social workers to honour the third year of the Child Welfare League report. So we're doing a number of things to work with the communities. We're trying, through our integrated service delivery model, to better integrate the services we do have at the community level to improve that quality of service. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 298-14(6): Capacity To Deliver Health Programs And Services
In the Legislative Assembly on June 10th, 2003. See this statement in context.
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