A-2.2 - Act to promote access to family medicine and specialized medicine services

Section 11.1 Disposition versions

2024-05-23

11.1. To allow for the booking of appointments with the same physician using more than one appointment booking system, the Minister may enter into an agreement with a supplier of an appointment booking system other than the one referred to in the sixth paragraph of section 2 of the Act respecting the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (chapter R-5).

As soon as a first agreement is entered into, the Minister must see to the management of appointment booking through those systems, in particular by taking the means necessary to prevent there being more than one appointment booked for a single period of availability.

As soon as such an agreement is entered into, every physician to whom section 11 applies must send the Minister their hours of availability referred to in that section, in accordance with the form and content, and at the intervals, determined by government regulation.

The Minister may use the information collected under the second and third paragraphs for any other purpose in addition to the purpose provided for therein, where such use is necessary for the exercise of the Minister’s functions, in particular for developing policies, medical staff planning, monitoring the implementation of those policies and that planning, and assessing applications for an approval, authorization or other decision that the Minister is empowered to make under the law in respect of the medical staff or any member of such staff.

2022, c. 16, s. 1.