Thank you. Recognizing that we have eight health and social services authorities in the Northwest Territories, each with their own unique challenges and their own unique realties, some being all community-based, some being more regional centre-based, some being hospital-based, like Stanton, each one of them has developed their own policy or their own procedures around trying to encourage people to attend their appointment. One thing we do, and all the authorities do, is I know that they do encourage people to let the authorities know, or the practitioners know, when they’re not going to be able to make it. That way appointments can be rebooked, but when people just don’t show up, that is a big problem and that’s something that, I agree with the Member, more work needs to be done. Each of the authorities has their own plan to deal with that because each authority is unique with their own unique challenges. Thank you.
Glen Abernethy on Question 241-17(5): No-Show Rates For Health Care Services
In the Legislative Assembly on March 7th, 2014. See this statement in context.
Question 241-17(5): No-Show Rates For Health Care Services
Oral Questions
March 6th, 2014
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