Let’s move to part 4.26, entitled: “Decisions related to marijuana for medical purposes”. I read the following:
Furthermore, departmental documents indicate that the decision to cover marijuana for medical purposes as a non-formulary product on a case-by-case basis was made at the senior management level, rather than by the Formulary Review Committee.
If I understand that correctly, a senior employee decided on requests on a case-by-case basis, with no set structure and specific criteria.
How could decisions be made like that? Is it the department responsible that did not establish a procedure for that? Or was it done on an individual’s initiative, with the department not bothering to do a self-assessment and to establish a process based on sound management?