"We're ready to start to move to change the way our system operates," she told members of the legislature's public accounts committee. She and deputy health minister Dr. Kevin Orrell were called before the committee to answer questions about criticism levelled at the department in a November 2017 audit of home-care support contracts by the province's auditor general. Pickup said one of his biggest concerns about the lack of checks and balances was that it made the system susceptible to fraud. On Wednesday, Orrell assured committee members that better tracking measures are in place and that the department is monitoring the performance of companies contracted to provide home-care services. Elliott-Lopez told the committee the provincial government is looking at redesigning the system rather than continuing to make "ad hoc" changes.

Source: CBC News February 10, 2021 20:15 UTC