I'd be pleased to respond to the member's question.
To begin, mental health has been a top priority for the Correctional Service for the last several years. We're working within, of course, the various scopes of practice, as regulated by the eight provinces in which we have our 57 institutions.
For example, the institutional mental health initiative, for which we first received funding in 2007, has a complement of about 90 health professionals, and in that we have psychologists, social workers, occupational therapists, and psychiatric or mental health nurses as well. I don't have them broken down by each initiative, Dr. Bennett, but I could, for example, speak to our current complement for psychologists, which is 340 psychologists. That's how many we're funded for across the service, and that's certainly one of our areas where we are struggling with recruitment and retention.
Our current vacancy rate in psychology is 20% of our positions. So when we have vacant positions—of course, we have to ask people to not ever work outside their scope of practice—we look at triaging the work that psychologists do to make sure we're concentrating them on the core areas where we need their valuable expertise, whether it be risk assessment, diagnosis of mental health conditions.... Then we work to provide an interdisciplinary team approach to support the inmates through the provision of mental health services.
For nurses, which is our largest employee group, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, we have a complement of 750 funded nurse positions. Our current vacancy rate is about 6% for nurses in the service.