Glen Abernethy

It’s different for every profession, as was indicated. The doctors would pay the licensing fee and that’s part of our revenue, but for professions like nurses, they’re paying their licensing fee to a territorial body or through them to a Canadian body. So they’d pay those, but we reimburse some of our nurses in the Northwest Territories that are employees. So the nurses aren’t showing up here, just the ones that are coming to us.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. NIHB covers things like dental and other extended benefits like medications and whatnot. The provision of care is provided within our facility for what would be considered more of the standard care. This covers that and it’s negotiated with the federal government. It was negotiated many years ago and I believe – and if I’m wrong, correct me – we have a 2 percent standard flat rate. So our rate here increases by about 2 percent a year, which is less than the 8, obviously.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. It’s an accountant type question, so what I’m going to do is go to Ms. Mathison to respond.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. The professional licence fees are for things like medical licences and things like that. With respect to how it’s figured or calculated, I’ll go to Director Mathison.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. The $3.2 million that’s in the budget for medical travel this year is the money I was talking about just a couple of minutes ago where we do have money for 2014-15, $3.2 million, but it’s not ongoing. Obviously we need to do some work there.

With respect to the $5.2 million that I mentioned for southern placement for adults and children, and that’s to go to different facilities in the South for programs and service that are available for our high needs residents here in the Northwest Territories, has been added to the base and it is ongoing funding. Every year we end up...

Thank you, Mr. Chair. We’ve gone back to 8-37 on this. I think the information he’s referring to is some detail we provided after discussions on the mains with committee. We will get more information for the Member on that.

It’s not revenue, Mr. Chair. It’s on page 8-37 because it’s a third-party funding agreement.

Thank you, Mr. Chair. With me today on my left is Jeannie Mathison, the director of finance; and on my right, Debbie DeLancey, the deputy minister of Health and Social Services.

Mr. Chair, that will come out in the report that we promised.