This relates to how we are funded. We are funded by the position, so we are not provided the call-back money when a nurse is called back, because on a 24-hour operation, you can’t run the position vacant. This isn’t about agency nurses. This is the backfill when someone is called in, and under the agreement there are ways that is done and what they are paid for. That was never funded, so we came forward and asked for that balancing and that is what you see.
Ms. Meade on Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
In the Legislative Assembly on February 7th, 2011. See this statement in context.
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
Consideration in Committee of the Whole of Bills and Other Matters
February 6th, 2011
Meade
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