Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thanks for your presentations. It's very encouraging to hear of all the progress in foreign credentialing.
As someone who worked in provincial government--five to nine years ago, I guess--I know that was a big issue for our government, so I'm very glad you're making progress. Also, it's such a human issue; people who can't get those credentials can't do the work they want. So it's important.
I'm going to ask some questions along a different line, though, and it comes from a meeting I had with the dean of the College of Health Disciplines at UBC. We were talking about the health human resources study. I was asking her what she sees, from her perspective of trying to integrate various health disciplines--i.e., the training, the curriculum, the objectives, the information--as the gap here.
One of the answers she gave me was that there are many pilot projects for integrating health professionals to be more effective, but they're pilot projects. When they're over, they're sometimes just over. There isn't a rolling out or a systemic adoption of the things we find out that work.
So whereas credentialing is more about bringing more professionals in than having a larger volume, I think we also really need to work on the effectiveness of the process we use and having health professionals work together in collaborative ways, with patient-centred processes and so on.
Can you give me any information or ideas about where in your organization there is a focus on taking pilot projects, and the learning we have from them, and implementing them more broadly in Canada?