Thank you, Madam Chair. Madam Chair, in fact, this work flows out of a recommendation in the integrated service delivery model where it was identified as we look at changing the staffing mix, redefining acute care beds, community care beds, adding nurse practitioners, the role of general practitioners, the surgery capacity, and those types of things, that we have to take the time to carefully assess. For example, the doctors, Dr. Peachey is doing work looking at the GP requirements in Yellowknife, in Inuvik, in the communities that have GPs and specialty doctors, because there's an overlap. It's a very complex issue; the issue of sustaining surgical services in Inuvik, the issue with the nurses of the mix. We are now proposing with nurse practitioners and GPs, for example, a population of 1,400 for a GP and nurse practitioner. These are areas where no other jurisdiction has yet gone; and we're trying to do the work flowing out of the integrated service delivery model, which told us to do the extra work to get that type of technical detail so that you can finalize and be able to come back and speak with some certainty as to the accuracy of the staffing mix and the benchmarks that we're going to be eventually bringing forward for approval to this body, to Cabinet and to FMB. Thank you.
Michael Miltenberger on Committee Motion 5-15(4): To Delete $108,000 From The Department Of Municipal And Community Affairs, School Of Community Government Activity In Bill 11, Defeated
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Committee Motion 5-15(4): To Delete $108,000 From The Department Of Municipal And Community Affairs, School Of Community Government Activity In Bill 11, Defeated
Item 19: Consideration In Committee Of The Whole Of Bills And Other Matters
October 26th, 2005
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