Thank you, Madam Chairperson. To the best of my knowledge the department, the various boards and health care associations had a fairly free ranging set of discussions around shared services. One of the areas where they began to do some very specific work was in the area of pharmaceuticals and pharmacy support. The Baffin Regional Health Board is one of the very few boards that have a pharmacist on staff and was quite helpful in supporting this work.
The working group recommended, and the recommendations were accepted by all parties, that they would establish a regional pharmacist position and that they would do it in the coming fiscal year. The regional pharmacist would work in support with the department in terms of its formularity and its pharmaceuticals program and in support of any board that did not have the resources or the demand for a full-time pharmacist. It is very much set to proceed, Madam Chairperson. Thank you.