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November 23, 2001
(Health and Community Services)
NOTE TO EDITORS:
Julie Bettney, Minister of Health and
Community Services, will hold the provincial Health Forum at Hotel Gander
November 27 and 28. The provincial forum is the culmination of the series of
regional forums Minister Bettney held throughout the province in October.
The following schedule indicates the sessions to which the media are
invited:
Tuesday, November 27
1: 30 p.m.
Opening remarks - Minister Bettney
1:45 p.m.
Forum Results Overview - Beverley Clarke,
Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy and Program Planning, Department of Health
and Community Services
2:15 p.m.
Evidence Based Decision Making - Dr. Patrick
Parfrey, Chief of Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Memorial University of
Newfoundland
3:15 p.m.
Learnings from the Primary Health Care
Enhancement Project - Bryson Webb, Member, Primary Health Care Enhancement
Project
Learnings from the Primary Care Advisory
Committee, Kathy LeGrow, Chair, Primary Care Advisory Committee
7:30 p.m.
Dinner
Guest Speaker - Premier Roger Grimes
Wednesday, November 28
9 a.m.
Welcome - Dr. Philip Warren, Chair, Premier�s
Council on Social Development
9:15 a.m.
Future Directions: Issues and Challenges -
Minister Bettney
12:30 p.m.
Lunch
Guest speaker - Lillian Bayne, Associate
Executive Director, Romanow Commission
4:30 p.m.
(Approximate)
Concluding remarks - Minister Bettney
Media contact: Carmel Turpin, Communications,
(709) 729-1377.
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