The Minister of Health Christian Dubé is preparing to make a revolution in the health network and must table, Wednesday or Thursday, a bill for the creation of Health Quebec.
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According to information obtained by TVA Nouvelles, Santé Québec would become the single employer for the entire health network.
The department would still provide the direction, but it would be Santé Québec that would manage the operations. The Minister has already met with fifty business people to attract seven to eight “top guns” to manage Health Quebec.
In particular, 20% of medical specialists would be called upon to do more patient care, TVA Nouvelles learned.
Staff mobility
The new law would also allow the mobility of health personnel from one region to another without loss of seniority.
Thus, a Bas-Saint-Laurent nurse who would like to work in Montreal would no longer be confined to the regional straightjacket of her CISSS and might keep her years of experience in her new region.
The same principle would also apply to the taking of long-term leave for health personnel.
The bill would also change services for patients. These might now be treated in a hospital where there are beds and resources available.
For example, a patient waiting for elective surgery in Outaouais might, if he wishes, be transferred to Abitibi if he can be seen there more quickly.
single card
As he told TVA Nouvelles, and for the sake of efficiency, the Minister wants to introduce a single hospital card that would be implemented throughout the province’s health network, a concept that we might appear in the bill.
Also according to sources from TVA Nouvelles, the bill would reduce the number of general managers per hospital center to one.
In the office of the Minister of Health, it is judged that the “status quo in the health network is not possible”.
The creation of Santé Québec is aimed at “two objectives in the Minister’s Health Plan: to improve access to Quebecers and to become an employer of choice”, assures the cabinet of Christian Dubé.
“We know it won’t be easy. In the end, we all have the responsibility to make changes if we want things to change,” concludes the communication sent to TVA Nouvelles.
– With information from Alain Laforest
