Thank you.
Thank you very much for your presentations.
It's shocking to think that British Columbia is the recipient of the inflow of health professionals, yet I know that in my riding and in many places in British Columbia people have extreme difficulty getting their own doctors. There are many orphan patients. This is a huge problem.
It's somewhat difficult in a way, because we're looking at the problem, if not in an arbitrary way through this employability study, at least severed from the whole package. I guess that relates to my first question.
To what extent do you think the reduction in the shortage of doctors and nurses could be addressed? I'll put aside the increased training that's required. Could it be reduced if, for example, we had a more integrated system, where a community health clinic did triage so the medical doctor didn't have to deal with everything from a cut on the hand to cancer assessment, where there was the possibility of having different community clinics with different expertise where patients could be triaged? I'm wondering to what extent that might help reduce the shortage, in your assessment.
I have another question specifically related to training.