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Work Plan – Health and Wellness – Jan 2016

January 13, 2016 by Brad Trivers 1 Comment

The Standing Committee on Health and Wellness met Tuesday, January 16, 2016 and has outlined a number of issues for their work plan.

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Topics approved for discussion by the committee include:

  1. Motion on Out-of-Province Health Care expenditures – the report of the auditor general will be reviewed by the committee prior to any further action – New Minister will be asked to appear before the committee to outline his vision for the department including this matter – Deputy will be asked to attend as well
  2. Support for grandparents acting as primary givers” – it was decided that perhaps this could be expanded to include any family member – and since the New Minister of Family and Human Resources promoted this Motion- she will be asked to appear – as well as the director of child and family services and grandparent’s rights group
  3. Darlene Compton proposed that a new legislative committee be developed to address Family and Human Resource issues – the consensus was to wait and see how the committee gets along
  4. The committee will be discussing the Wellbeing Measurement Act – Peter Bevan Baker, presented a list of witnesses – it was also decided to seek an opinion on whether PBB would be in Conflict of Interest to discuss this issue in committee – Wales just adopted this Legislation and it was agreed that the committee hold a skype session with their representative on this Legislation
  5. Dr. Wedge will be appearing before committee to discuss issues such as Catastrophic Drug Program; Mental Health and Addictions; and screening programs;
  6. The Senior Citizens Federation will be asked to come in to discuss quality of life issues for seniors in longterm care facilities especially hospitals; palliative care, the need for a gerontologist and training for workers in private and public community care and long term care facilities
  7. Mona O’Shea of the PEI Nurses Union will be asked to appear to discuss nursing shortages in the province
  8. The committee will also be discussing funding for provincial, local and elite sports teams and athletes as well as school bands, choirs, etc.
  9. An update and review of the Home Renovation Program will be sought
  10. The details of how a basic income guarantee would work will be a topic
  11. And a social action plan for the province will be discussed further

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Filed Under: Blog, Featured, Health and Wellness Tagged With: basic income guarantee, catastrophic drug program, gerontologist, grandparents, home renovation, mental health and addictions, nursing, out-of-province health care, Seniors, social action plan, Sports, Well-being Measurement Act

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  1. Gordon McNeilly says

    January 13, 2016 at 12:46 pm

    Thanks for this update Brad, great to see such great files being discussed.

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