Thank you, Madam Chair. There are a large number of services that have become available over the years that are not currently covered under our insured services. Our insured services coverage is fairly dated and it hasn’t really had a very comprehensive review in some time, which is one of the reasons why we’ve created the chief clinical advisor position to help us actually do this analysis to make sure that the types of things that are covered under insured services are really keeping with the times, and the fact that the health system does change and evolve and new programs and services come in.

We’ve had the chief clinical advisor on for a while. One of his primary tasks is to provide clinic guidance around clinical practice guidelines but also to provide advice and guidance on what we have and currently cover under insured services.

One of the things we are looking at, as well as many others, is bariatric surgery. It’s going to take a bit of time to make sure that we’re doing the comprehensive analysis on that and then we bring those forward for discussion.

At this point in time, there is no discussion about including naturopathic doctors under insured services.