Thank you, Mr. Chairman. On page 8-21 I just wanted to follow up with a couple of questions I noted under physicians inside the NWT and, as well, sort of cost to our health service centres. One of the particular issues I’ve noticed, and I’ve talked to the Minister and deputy minister, is the cost to health centres in how they distribute or reallocate funds; namely doctors’ cost and if we have a particular case where a health centre, or I should call it a health authority, where they are unable to find a doctor, they have excess funds sitting around, but they’re not allowed to hire NPs in the interim to fill some of those needs and gaps created. I raised that specific issue to the deputy minister one day in the building here and I’m wondering what headway have they made in that particular case. So as I understand it, doctor money is prescribed specifically to hire a doctor, but if you can’t hire a doctor in that particular authority for that particular hospital, the doctor money sits there and that therein lies the problem. Thank you.
Robert Hawkins on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 8th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 7th, 2011
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