Health committee  Thank you for the question. I'm not sure we would have looked at it that way because my sense of it is that it also depends somewhat on the various professions that you're talking about. One thing we have noticed is that often the regime in the province of Quebec requires us to

Health committee  Yes. Maybe I can sketch out a little about what we do for our clientele. Upon intake we do a 24-hour nursing assessment that looks at both physical health needs as well as the mental health needs. That's followed up by a 14-day nursing assessment during which you look at the sa

Health committee  I'll just go back to what our mandate is under the Corrections and Conditional Release Act, and that is to provide every inmate with essential health care. Our essential health care framework defines what essential health services are for federal inmates. We work on a referral sy

Health committee  I'll start with your first question, which Health Canada also answered. Certainly we rely on the leadership of Health Canada, but from a very operational perspective, we're a fairly small employer of about 2,400 health professionals. We do very detailed operational planning. Ea

Health committee  Good morning, Mr. Chair and members of the committee. My name is Michele Brenning, Assistant Commissioner, Health Services, Correctional Service of Canada. With me is Henry de Souza, Director General of Clinical Services and Public Health. I would like to thank the committee for