Ms. Leila Gillis (Director, Primary Health Care Systems Division, Department of Health) at the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Committee

We're certainly challenged by geographic location and we do have models that are similar to those in other geographic locations. We are about to do a comparative descriptive analysis where there are comparable locations where provincial services are provided. However, we do have, and have increased, nurse practitioners in many of our nursing stations, and part of our analysis of each nursing station and their essential services is the plan to enhance the mix of skills, collaborative practice arrangements for physician coverage, and also to increase the number of nurse practitioners in our current nursing teams within the nursing stations.