Tom Beaulieu

No, I don’t know the stats for the number of babies born with jaundice, but we would be easily able to get that information from the places where the babies are born.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, I will commit to re-examining the possibility of having nursing services in Wrigley. Thank you.

Thank you, Madam Chair. The existing medevac contract has been extended for us to do a thorough and proper review. The RFP will hopefully be out in April and we’re expecting to have a new contract in place by September 30, 2014.

We’re not anticipating that change. We were going to change the standards. Maybe we could have further clarification. We weren’t thinking of changing the act or regulations but putting in territorial standards and other standards around education and so on. Perhaps I could get the deputy minister to provide some detail on what we consider or think the cost would be around that change.

I can’t see it being too difficult. We can provide a briefing note to the Member.

At this point we are thinking of approaching the midwives that are in Fort Smith to talk to us about how the program functions in Fort Smith. Right now the midwives have been doing deliveries in Fort Smith for the last several years, I think since 2005 when those regulations were developed for the community of Fort Smith. Now that they have doctors in Fort Smith, how that will change and how the system will work with doctors and how the system would work without doctors. The role of the midwives would be to give us the on-the-ground information on what works and what does not work. We’re...

Madam Chair, we can provide a general response. I will have the deputy minister do that.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We have not received a request from the Beaufort-Delta Health and Social Services Authority to provide this material. What we would be prepared to do is we could check with the authority, and then we will get a determination from them if they’re going to make a request for that. Then we will take it from there.

I recognize that we do have several reports. What I also recognize is, up until 16 months ago when I became Minister of Health and Social Services, there seemed to be a lot of issues surrounding a lack of treatment to the individuals suffering from addictions. So this forum was struck so we could go out and hear from the people firsthand. I’m not sure that those reports had full across-the-board community consultation like we’re doing with the Ministers’ Forum. We do try to fit what we have into the system, but so far we are hearing some preliminary things from the forum that we haven’t...

We have hired a doctor to do the review of the Integrated Service Delivery Model and we’re expecting the results of his work to be completed in August.