Inuvik hospital workers decry loss of weekend mental health services, emails show – CBC
Aug 13, 2025
N.W.T. health authority says working on weekends is not sustainable for social work team
Emails from Inuvik, N.W.T., health-care workers detail serious concerns around the loss of weekend mental health services at the town’s hospital and the toll that loss is taking on local nurses.
CBC News obtained the emails that were addressed to territorial government officials through an Access to Information and Protection of Privacy (ATIPP) request received in July.
These emails include concerns from nurses and locum doctors about the lack of an on-call medical social worker on weekends and how mental health responsibilities are now falling on nurses.
