CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS have started with the per- son who will be the most powerful health care executive in the northwest, The person, nat yet named, will be the chief exec- utive officer of the Northwest Community Health Ser- vices Society, formerly the Skeena Health Unit, which handles issues such as community and home-based pro- grams and water testing, He or she will also be responsible for bringing toge- ther the various community health councils on regional, hospital-based health care programs. “We have made a selection and we’re now looking at when they could start,” said Sharon Smith, the chair of the health care services society, The Previous chief executive officer of the health saciety was also the chief medical health officer. That latter role-was carved off and Dr. Isaac Sobol, also a new hire, now handles those responsibilities. The twin jobs awaiting the new chief executive is based on the need for more co-operation between the community health councils to provide better regional services all the way around, said Smith. It also keeps the community health councils autono- Locals placed on team to study THREE TERRACE people have been named to the group working on the sen- sitive issue of whether to lift the moratorium on off- shore oil and gas explora- tion. College instructor John Hart, Sierra Club official Bruce Hill and Albert Rat- tray are the Terrace con- tingent on the 24-member process design team that’s been organized by the Northern . Development Commission. ' Kitimat reps include Reg ‘Stowell, Kitimat mu- nicipal manager Trafford Hall. and Malcolm Lamb. The team doesn't make any recommendations on the lifting of the moratori- ume But it is charged with designing a public process pe oil, gas to deliberate on whether or not it should be lifted. 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We don’t have a re- gional health board because we all felt it was important to maintain the local health councils,” Smith said, This idea of more regional co-operation will have added weight in that the board of the Northwest Com- munity Health Services Society is made up of the chairs of the various community health councils, Smith, for example, is the Bulkley Valley Health Council which cavers the area from Topley in the east to Moricetown, west of Smithers. The board and the new executive will use last year's $230,000 study of northwest health services as their guide. It calls for, among other things, for increased eye surgery and better access to arthopedic surgery, The study has been accepted and approved by the provincial government, but what that means isn’t exactly known. “We're waiting for something specific,” said Smith. “But there are some goals we can begin working on anyway. 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