Bob Bromley

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I speak today on the need to maintain Aurora College’s vital Nurse Practitioner Master of Nursing and Introduction to Advanced Practice programs. The introduction to the Nurse Practitioner Program offered since 1989 is a six-week program running three times a year with an average of 12 nurses attending. Graduating nurses gain advanced health assessment skills and techniques needed to practice in remote rural communities.

According to the course instructor, this training has been proven to prevent the sometimes disastrous treatment and cost consequences when “nurses were...

Page 8-17. Mr. Abernethy.

Thank you Mr. Elkin. Committee, again, we are on page 8-18, Health and Social Services, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions, $17.619 million. Agreed?

Moving to page 8-9, Health and Social Services, information item again, revenue summary. Agreed?

Thank you, Minister. Next on my list I have Ms. Bisaro.

I realize they are different. I’ll look forward to that information coming forward from an earlier request.

I also wanted to talk about the -- sorry, I still think of it as Community Call Coverage System -- the Territorial Support Network. How is that reflected in this? My impression, from the briefings we’ve had and so on, is that there is some capacity building that’s needed. I believe we have a lot of new equipment out in our health centres now in terms of X-ray capability and ultrasound and so on; perhaps some training needs still. I know bandwidth might be part of the whole equation. I’m...

Thank you. Page 8-14, Health and Social Services, activity summary, directorate, contributions, $35,000. Agreed?

Page 8-18, Health and Social Services, activity summary, program delivery support, grants and contributions, contributions, $17.619 million. Ms. Bisaro.

Hearing none, we’ll move to detail. Minister, would you like to bring in witnesses? Yes, you would. I’ll ask the Sergeant-at-Arms if he could escort the witnesses into the House. Mahsi.

Minister, please introduce your witnesses.

Thank you, Mr. Menicoche. Minister Lee. Ms. Meade.