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The Northwest Territories faces growing challenges in healthcare, including rising costs, limited resources, and increasing medical and social challenges. To ensure high-quality care remains accessible and sustainable, the Government of the Northwest Territories has established the Healthcare System Sustainability Unit to define core health and social services, improve efficiency, and ensure the system remains financially and operationally sustainable.
About the Healthcare System Sustainability Unit
The work of the Healthcare System Sustainability Unit supports the 2023-2027 Mandate by defining core health and social services, including insured services, that should be provided in the Northwest Territories while ensuring a high level of care for residents. This work will be undertaken in a phased, iterative and evidence-based approach that will first help us understand what the current health and social services being offered are, and then provide recommendations for what should be core to the NWT.
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Pathways to health and social services system sustainability
Creating a sustainable health and social services system is a shared effort between the Government of the Northwest Territories’ Department of Health and Social Services, the three Health and Social Services Authorities, and the Healthcare System Sustainability Unit.
Different departments and agencies will lead various initiatives, but all efforts will be coordinated within three main areas to improve access to care and ensure long-term sustainability:
- Governance and Policy Considerations: Improving how the system is managed and finding ways to streamline governance in the NWT’s health and social services system;
- Financial Sustainability: Strengthening fiscal management and addressing areas that directly affect the system’s financial health; and
- Operational Efficiencies: Enhancing how services are delivered to improve access and quality of care for residents.
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Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting
The Healthcare System Sustainability Unit uses a flexible approach to monitoring, evaluation and reporting that can adapt as its analysis evolves and priorities shift during the 20th Assembly. As part of this approach, the unit will publish an annual report based on its Monitoring and Evaluation framework. Reports will be added here as they become available. More information on Monitoring, Evaluation and Reporting can be found here.
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