Human Resources committee  We have had cuts through all aspects of the health care structure here in New Brunswick. They have impacted mental health such that just the basic services cannot be provided in a timely fashion. I think the present wait list for suicidal patients, urgent patients, is six weeks,

Human Resources committee  I'll can give you an example from our clinic. As mentioned, we work with drug addicts. One of our clients came. I'm okay to share this, because she's cool with it. She was a drug addict. She was selling cocaine. She came to us for help. She is now employed as one of our part-ti

Human Resources committee  We think we even have pot in our water, because everybody we test has pot. That's going to be a tough one.

Human Resources committee  One of the difficulties I see with the criminal system is that if people need help with things like drugs and alcohol, and those problems land them into trouble with the law, unless they get into the federal system, i.e. get over two years, they are in a provincial system where t

Human Resources committee  In terms of how the federal government could provide more services to medical? Is that what you're asking?

Human Resources committee  We have a huge health crisis, of which I'm sure you may be aware, here in New Brunswick. We have approximately 5,000 patients without family doctors on waiting lists here in Moncton. To provide service to people who are marginalized, who consume lots of time, who have complex nee

Human Resources committee  Attached to that is the fact that they may not have any other type of identification to present to the province to prove that they're even a Canadian.

Human Resources committee  Or any fixed address, absolutely.

Human Resources committee  As I mentioned, we are now funded by the regional health authority, so the nurse practitioner and I are on salary. We can see anybody right now who really walks through the door. We are attached to the homeless shelter, so a lot of our people are in the homeless shelter. We hav

Human Resources committee  Yes. Often they've had failures through the other.... It is sometimes frustrating for us when we feel they need to be seen, and they don't have the structure in their lives that enables them to get to the specialist at 8:30 in the morning. Then they get booted out of the practice

Human Resources committee  It's Latin for safe and well, and that's what we want our people to be.

Human Resources committee  Often homeless people lose their medicare card, and they're transient; they leave home without it or it gets stolen on the streets. So they aren't able to present a valid card to the hospital or the after hours clinic. They get turned away or they are looked down upon and not ser

Human Resources committee  Thank you. I do have a short synopsis of our clinic and what we do there, and I've answered some of your questions in my brief. I have been a family physician for 18 years. For 16 of those years I worked in a small town in New Brunswick, practising in family and emergency med