Tom Beaulieu

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. We are waiting on recommendations from the Ministers’ Forum on Addictions and Community Wellness. We do suspect that one of their recommendations may be to place an additional treatment facility somewhere. Once we get their recommendations, if that is one of the recommendations, we will weigh those against the current treatment centre we have in place and then move forward from there.

Thank you, Madam Chair. With the positions that are in the current budget under review, we would be able to roll out, I guess sort of like a pilot for TSN, this fiscal year.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We were looking to put the territorial midwifery program in place three fiscal years from now, so we are discussing, assuming that the mains that we’re talking about now is 2013-14, so 2014-15 of the next phase and then 2015-16 would be the regional. The expansion for Yellowknife would be in year 2016-17. I guess it would not be in this government but we would hope to have all of the funding approved and the program moving through the system if we stay with that schedule.

Thank you, Madam Chair. There is no gap and no delay.

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Yes, that service will still be available and needed. Midwifery will not replace that. Midwifery will be a complementary practice.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I will have the director of finance provide the response.

Thank you, Madam Chair. In our medical travel review we are looking at medical travel being probably brought back to Health and Social Services and would be one of the projects under the back office functions.

We believe that the electronic medical records will provide some savings further down the road. The immediate benefit is to the patient care at this time. We’re doing it because we do see an immediate benefit to the way we care for our patients.

We were initially responding to the third item down on program delivery details on 8-17. We thought we were responding to health services administration so, yes, we were responding to a different item the first time when we talked about $1.4 million for salaries. We were talking about that item. I just for a minute thought that we were still talking about that line item, but now we’ve moved to the bottom one and that’s what we’re responding to now.

Thank you. The department does not have a regular cycle for reviewing supplementary health benefits.