Tom Beaulieu

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.

All calls on medical travel, whether it be medevacs or medical travel, are made by a physician. If a physician has made a decision that they are going to be able to get to the patient quicker through another avenue, that may be a reason for aborting a medical travel or medevac. If we’re talking about something that’s outside of a community, not moving from one point within a community to a point where an individual can get medical travel, then I’m not familiar with why or what the protocol is to abort such a trip.

Thank you, Madam Chair. We didn’t hear the question.

Yes.