I believe there are six physician positions allocated for Beaufort-Delta. They have never been able to hire all six. We have about four, and we have to then use locum services for that. This is obviously a very crucial issue. It’s an issue that I actually brought up in our teleconference in the Western Health Ministers meeting last Friday. It’s one that I want to bring forward to a Ministers’ table for all Ministers. We are planning on meeting in September.
At home I want to look at the different staffing models for doctors, but that’s not going to be ready for presentation to the Members until the next business planning session, because it’s something that I’m working on and I have not finalized. I agree with the Member that this is something that we need to take some drastic action on, or at least come up with a different staffing model as to how we can address that.