The Foundation for Change document referenced a client navigator and already the system needs and priorities have changed. So a client navigator doesn’t really assist much. A client navigator can be a specialist, for example. We do have one, we intend to keep one who deals with cancer patients and the flow between Edmonton and Stanton and then dealing with treatment. A navigator helps you interface with the various specialists, the variety of specialists and

treatment needs and appointments you need. They arose out of large centres where you were probably going to four or five different hospitals and clinics and specialists.

We’re now looking at, within our Chronic Disease Management Strategy that we’re bringing all the authorities into, is that are there key areas where a navigator would be helpful. A navigator is anything from somebody who gets you through a particular hospital instead of clinics, to somebody who helps you manage and it’s an information. I think there was some discussion earlier about is this somebody that really just provides information, but that’s not a clinical navigator and we are feeling that the clinical navigator in the area of chronic disease. So while it never was in the budget, it was in Foundation for Change. We feel that we need to rethink the best use of a navigator program and link it to chronic disease and look at within both existing resources and what we would need in the future.