Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, back in the 14th Assembly there was, I think, over $8 million voted by this Assembly as interim health professions to allow us to better staff our health professions. The majority of that money went into Yellowknife with the nurses, doctors, more specialists. We currently have 29 GP positions in Yellowknife and 22, I believe, are specialist positions. We are also working at better coordinating our referral processes, our medical travel. We are adding nurse practitioners. So we're investing significantly across the board to deal with waiting times, not only in Yellowknife, but I want to point out we also have significant challenges in small communities where oftentimes we have trouble getting a full complement of nurses where communities are reduced to emergency services because of the inability to get qualified community nurses. So there are challenges across the system and we are making efforts on all those fronts. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Question 305-15(3): Emergency Room Wait Times
In the Legislative Assembly on October 26th, 2004. See this statement in context.
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Question 305-15(3): Emergency Room Wait Times
Item 6: Oral Questions
October 25th, 2004
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