Veterans Affairs committee  That is being done.

Veterans Affairs committee  Usually our members make application to Veterans Affairs before they leave. We're giving them a copy of their medical file around the time of their release, but Veterans Affairs certainly wants to become engaged and to be able to evaluate what entitlements they may have before it

Veterans Affairs committee  CROMIS is going to be our main evaluation methodology. That is really going to be how we're going to look at outcomes. However, we have looked at the patient satisfaction with the care they are being provided through two venues. Our directorate of force health protection does

Veterans Affairs committee  The mental health survey from 2013 is really trying to help us understand the extent of mental illness in the Canadian Armed Forces and look at the change between 2002, when we initially did this survey, and 2013. We designed that study in a way that also used questions that were

Veterans Affairs committee  That's correct.

Veterans Affairs committee  A member can request a sit-down meeting with the caregiver to go through the medical file at any time. The member would be able to sit down with the primary care provider to go through that file. We don't usually make a copy of it and hand it over until it is time for the releas

Veterans Affairs committee  Our mental health program is primarily designed to deliver care to Canadian Forces members or reservists who are entitled. That said, we do also have an agreement with the RCMP and Veterans Affairs Canada to be able to look after some veterans or RCMP members within our mental

Veterans Affairs committee  That may permit that transition, but oftentimes it's not the accommodation that's undertaken in order to enable the smoother transition. It's not called an accommodation. We just extend the transition period. They are going to be released, and we try to extend that as much as pos

Veterans Affairs committee  Are you familiar with that?

Veterans Affairs committee  The transfer of medical records is usually done on a request from Veterans Affairs, based on the request by the member to Veterans Affairs Canada. We are not able to transfer files directly from the Canadian Armed Forces to Veterans Affairs Canada because of their regulations an

Veterans Affairs committee  It can.

Veterans Affairs committee  Somebody with a permanent medical category who doesn't meet universality of service may be one of our patients who has had a heart attack and has a left ventricular ejection fraction of 25%, if you will, and is just not able to undertake the demands of military service and so wou

Veterans Affairs committee  So there are various categories and options. DMCA decides whether or not somebody will be accommodated, and that depends on where we are with respect to the trade the individual is in.

Veterans Affairs committee  As I explained, we're really not at the point of using the CAREN system too much for the treatment of mental health casualties. It's mostly people who have physical injuries that we're using the CAREN system for right now. When we're treating patients with mental health concerns,

Veterans Affairs committee  At the present time, our case managers usually pick up the case early on and start to manage it. Prior to release, we do engage with the Veterans Affairs case managers to make sure that things start to link up. Within our joint personnel support units and our affiliated IPSCs, th