Tom Beaulieu

Thank you. Yes, I did misunderstand the question. I thought she was telling me that the physicians were refusing and I said I didn’t know why that was happening. But again, we are looking at that. We think that is one of the emerging issues in the whole issue of chronic disease management, and we recognize that this is an issue and we’re hoping that once the committee is able to discuss this, that changes can be made in the system and it can become part of the insured services. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We have some progress to report within the last month. I would like the deputy minister just to provide the details of the progress we’ve made in this area.

We would be able to provide an inventory of units that are targeted to supported living, but we don’t have that information with us here today.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The way the budget is laid out, if you’re comparing with the actuals, it looks like the budget has decreased, but if you compare with the mains, then you can see that there is a gradual increase. The reason the actuals are high is we have bumped up their budget on the redistribution of funding between all of the health and social services authorities, including Stanton. Some of the authorities that had deficits, we had moved money. We had an agreement with all of the authorities that we would move money around. This was the reason it shows as a bit of a bump up to $87...

As we examine this possibility, we will work with the Member to look at the costs and so on.

We can do that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We have some details here that I would maybe have the deputy minister just read the cost detail for the other areas like the revenues that come in to pay for medical travel and also the THSSI, I suppose.

Thank you. As Minister I have the authority to add, delete or amend insured services. In May 2012 we had put a committee together with the NWT Medical Association, and now we’re in the process of developing the terms of reference for that so that we can look at making those changes to the medical services through looking at the regulations of the act. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess I wasn’t clear on this. The review portion of the ISDM is complete. Right now the doctor that we have hired is doing the clinical services plan to develop or to upgrade or amend, I guess, the Integrated Service Delivery Model.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I guess for clarification, I just want to explain what it is that we’re doing with Healthy Families and the internal discussions we’re having for expansion. The Healthy Families have been expanding to all of the regions. I believe we have a program in every region. Just expanding now into the Sahtu, and then that would place us into all of the regions.

The next plan for expansion, I guess contingent upon getting the funding through the business planning process, is to expand to the larger communities in the regions that don’t have a Healthy Families program. It is very...