Lesa Semmler

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, My department is working with ISC to look at repurposing the funding to explore traditional birth works, and this could potentially include traditional knowledge healing, Indigenous birth work education, and perinatal resources. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Yes, we do do exit interviews. The level of where those are done, I am not aware, but I know that when I was being briefed on coming up with the new -- you know, with the new people strategy, that that is one of the bigger areas where they are looking at, also from the town halls, also from the in-person meetings. And they've taken a lot of that information and tried to turn it into the new document that we should be hopefully being able to share shortly with committee. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I don't have that level of detail right now, but what I can do is once the session is over, I will ask my department to brief me as to all of the work that has been going on in this area and, you know, I can meet with the Member after I have that briefing. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'd have to get back to the Member on that question.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, what we have done is that we have done some information -- I can share it with the Members. They can share it with their constituents. They can share it on their social media -- that when you're leaving the Northwest Territories and -- you know, if you were leaving the country, most people are -- always buy travel insurance but not necessarily when we leave to drive to Edmonton. Not -- people are not thinking that, you know, certain things aren't covered. But when you're driving out of the territory or flying out of the territory and on personal reasons...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the department has completed a territory-wide review of supportive living as we've discussed in this House, and there was input from Behchoko to identify gaps and future needs. Right now, I think what's happening is the supportive living standards have been done. The territorial admission committee for this, as there was no previous -- kind of like the long-term care territorial committee, there was no territorial committee to kind of be able to place -- to assess and to figure out who and where clients could be supported better. The health sustainability...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the NWT emergency departments use the Canadian triage and acuity scale which sets out target wait times for emergency departments. Those are public documents that are published online. The authority confirms that the same performance measures are used at the Hay River Health Authority. NTHSSA included an ED, emergency department, wait time indicator for Stanton and Inuvik on our public dashboard. That's on the NTHSSA website. So you'll see that where the Canadian average is and where Stanton and Inuvik sit. Inuvik sits consistently below the Canadian average where...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. So the ideal panel size depends on many factors, and that's the complicated part of it. There's no single standard number. Panel size vary widely. So what may happen in the capital might be different in some of our regional centres based on patient complexity, provider type, team makeup, clinical capacity. Any approach also needs to consider cultural safety, social complexity, chronic disease needs, and the realities of remote practice.

So the department is developing a patient attachment guideline that will support an equity-focused, complexity-based approach to panel...

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I believe that with the schematic and design going out now, for that work to conclude won't be in time for this capital budget consideration but it would be completed for the next capital budget consideration. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the paramedics that work currently in our facilities when there is -- you know, if there is a critical level of staffing, so if they are to work in, say, emergency to support the emergency department, they will work within the guidelines and the policies that are created based on their scope of practice and what they're registered and what their training is. And that's how they would recruit that level of paramedic.

If they're working in the health centre, it's the same. There's guidelines and policies that they have to work with under. And the paramedics...