Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, there is flexibility within the Health and social services Administration Act to bring Hay River health and social services into NTHSSA, but in the meantime they are part of an integrated health and social services system in the NWT where people from Hay River receive treatment anywhere else in the Northwest Territories, and vice versa if someone's in Hay River, they get treatment there. There are a couple of significant barriers. One is that Hay River health and social services has its own collective agreement. And so their staff are not GNWT staff. So that issue was last looked at in 2015 when a working group examined the implications and costs of bringing HRHSSA into the Territorial Health and social services Authority. At the time, the cost of bringing the Hay River Health and Social Services Authority in was $20 million, and the government of the day decided it was beyond its capacity to accommodate that. So I think the time has come to strike again a working group to look at what the cost would be so that the next government can make an informed decision about this. Thank you.
Julie Green on Question 1591-19(2): Amalgamating Hay River Health and Social Services Authority into Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority
In the Legislative Assembly on September 29th, 2023. See this statement in context.
Question 1591-19(2): Amalgamating Hay River Health and Social Services Authority into Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority
Oral Questions
September 29th, 2023
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