We are on page 6-39, information item, Community Health Programs, Active Positions.
Department of Health and Social Services,
Activity Summary, Community Health Programs, Active Positions, information item (page 6-39), approved.
Debates of June 5th, 2008
This is page numbers 899 to 954 of the Hansard for the 16th Assembly, 2nd Session. The original version can be accessed on the Legislative Assembly's website or by contacting the Legislative Assembly Library. The word of the day was health.
Topics
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
We’re on page 6-40, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others. Mr. Hawkins.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Mr. Chairman, I’d like some details and an explanation as to what exactly the Territorial
Health Access Fund Arctic Health Research Network is.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Cummings
Funding from the Territorial Health Access Fund for the Arctic Health Research Network is to assist the Arctic Health Research Network with its start-up infrastructure to establish a research network in the North. The fund is actually from the pan-territorial fund, and the Northwest Territories is taking the lead and works with the contingent of the Arctic Health Research Network in Nunavut and Yukon to establish a research network.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Mr. Chairman, either I missed it or it wasn’t mentioned. What exactly are they researching?
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Sandy Lee Range Lake
Mr. Chairman, this funding is provided from the Government of Yukon — $100,000 is for costs related to the operational secretariat. It’s a pan-territorial project to develop a concept for a sustainable northern health research network. If I’m not mistaken, I think it’s part of the Polar Year research. Maybe Mr. Cummings could clarify.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Cummings
The objective of the Arctic Health Research Network is to develop a pan-territorial research network in the North that is supported by connections with universities and research networks in the south. It is intended to be a collaborative process with northern people so that it goes into communities and holds community events and consults with communities about the ethics of conducting research and how traditional knowledge transfer can occur and how research can be respectful of aboriginal culture, tradition and those kind of things. It actually generates ideas for research that will be helpful to northern people and that will originate in the North, as opposed to the historical way of doing research, where southern research networks come into the North and study northern people and take that research home with them.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
On a separate subject, the NWT national diabetes surveillance system, under this sort of work performed on behalf of others — what does standardization diabetes surveillance actually mean? Like, that’s a lot of platitude words. I’m trying to get the sense of what they’re after.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Cummings
Any disease surveillance
mechanism usually involves software or the establishment of a data base to collect standard data for all clients who present and are at risk of developing diabetes or have developed diabetes.
So it would collect standardized data that can compare our jurisdiction to other jurisdictions nationally.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
Thank you,
Mr. Cummings. We’re on page 6-40, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others.
Department of Health and Social Services,
Work Performed on Behalf of Others, information item, approved.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
We’re on page 6-41, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others —Continued.
Department of Health and Social Services,
Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 6-41), approved.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
We’re on page 6-42, information item, Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued.
Department of Health and Social Services,
Work Performed on Behalf of Others — Continued, information item (page 6-42), approved.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
We’re done with page 6-42, so we’ll go back to page 6-7, Department of Health and Social Services, Department Summary, Operations Expenditures: $309.822 million. Mr. Bromley.
Committee Motion 29-16(2) To Reinstate Stanton Hospital Telehealth Coordinator Position And Associated Contribution Funding For A Total Amount Of $210,000, Health And Social Services, Program Delivery Support (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
June 4th, 2008
Bob Bromley Weledeh
Mr.
Chair, I move that this
committee defer further consideration of the department summary for the Department of Health and Social Services, operations expenditures, at this time.
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
A motion is on the floor and is being distributed now. The motion has now been distributed. The motion is in order.
Motion carried.
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
Okay. We’ll be moving along now to Volume 2, the Infrastructure Acquisition Plan for the Department of Health and Social Services. We are on page 5-7, Health and Social Services, Infrastructure Acquisition Plan, Health Services Programs, Tangible Capital Assets, Total Tangible Capital Assets: $12.808 million; Total activity: $12.808 million. Mr. Hawkins.
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Under Consolidated Primary Care Clinic in Yellowknife: has there been any work done on selecting a location for that as of yet and if so, where?
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Sandy Lee Range Lake
Mr. Chairman, the RFP will go out when the budget is passed, so there will be no locations or anything known until the RFP is accepted.
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Robert Hawkins Yellowknife Centre
Just for clarity, of course — as they say, for the official record: is this project tied to this budget, and is it tied in such a way that this budget needs to pass in order for this project to continue?
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Committee Motion 30-16(2) To Defer Further Consideration Of The Operations Expenditures, Department Of Health And Social Services (Committee Motion Carried)
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
The Chair Glen Abernethy
Any other questions?
Department of Health and Social Services,
Infrastructure Acquisition Plan, Health Service Programs, Total Tangible Capital Assets: $12.808 million; Total Activity: $12.808 million, approved.