However, just as CF members have done, uniformed health care providers have made the informed choice that they would give up their individual rights and freedoms by placing Service before Self . This premeditated decision of unlimited liability to serve, allows uniformed health care providers to serve CF members, anywhere and anytime. They can go where our civilian counterparts sometimes cannot go. They are trained and ready, as other CF members are trained and ready, to respond to our country s demands. We all agree, the broken minds and broken bodies that populate the CF require nurturing.
Symptoms are complex, treatment regimes comprehensive.
For CF members, the ability to establish a strong, stable therapeutic relationship with health care providers is vital. For DND, the responsibility to provide a minimum of continuity of care is fundamental. To provide continuity of care, especially in the many under-serviced areas where the CF operate, DND needs to provide a health care structure that offers a minimum of stability, that is accredited, and that is managed with clearly articulated direction and guidance. First, the Task Force undertook to articulate the areas of health care where uniformed health care providers should concentrate their effort. Enclosure 2 summarises the outcome of that work.