2024-08-23 17:30:09
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé announced Thursday that health facilities in urban areas will finally end their reliance on private institutions by March 2025. They were supposed to wrap it up as early as October.
The change is intended to “ensure a healthy transition for patients,” he said in a press release Thursday afternoon. This “will make it possible to continue work and, in particular, encourage the recruitment of personnel to strengthen the public network”.
The final ban on the use of private institutions was originally planned for October 20, 2024. Montregi.
Certain care facilities in these areas will also be entitled to an additional seven months, until 19 October 2025. This situation.
The big cities will be the first to be completely without an independent workforce. The deadline is set at 2025 for medium-sized cities and 2026 for more rural areas. For now, these deadlines remain unchanged.
The minister is under intense pressure on the matter. A few days ago, the Federation of Specialist Doctors of Quebec (FMSQ) issued an appeal to the media urging it to extend the deadline. The medical group is concerned that Montreal will be affected by reforms such as staffing shortages experienced this summer in the northern Côte d’Ivoire, Ooutaoui and Abitibi-Timiscaminge regions.
Please remember that recourse to health facilities is still allowed in these areas. As the cap on hourly wages under the reform came into effect, the shortage multiplied.
3,800 out of 11,000 repatriated workers
In his letter, the Health Minister reiterated that it was crucial to abolish recourse to agencies. The use of this type of workforce “creates serious inequalities among those working in the health and social services system, particularly in terms of pay, schedule management and leave allocation,” he wrote.
He also emphasized that 3,800 agency workers have returned to the public network since the new law came into effect. The total in 2023 is 11,000.
On Thursday, key stakeholders were keen to react to the minister’s retreat and spoke of “admitting defeat”. “Our teams provide the necessary flexibility and responsiveness that are critical to the well-being of patients across Quebec,” said the president of Quebec’s Association of Private Healthcare Providers.
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