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G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system
Section 233
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233. Where, in light of generally recognized access standards and after holding the appropriate consultations, Santé Québec’s president and chief executive officer considers that the waiting time for receiving a specialized or superspecialized service throughout Québec or in a particular region of Québec is unreasonable or about to become so, the president and chief executive officer must see to the implementation of special access mechanisms so that the service concerned may be made otherwise accessible within a time the president and chief executive officer considers reasonable.
The president and chief executive officer may require that an institution involved in the provision of the specialized or superspecialized service concerned adjust its operating methods for access to that service accordingly.
The person responsible for managing access to specialized or superspecialized services must notify the medical and professional services director when of the opinion, after consulting the head of the clinical department concerned, that a user will not be able to receive a specialized or superspecialized service from the institution within a time the president and chief executive officer considers reasonable.
The medical and professional services director makes, without delay, an alternative service proposal to the user that takes into account, in particular, the territorial department of specialized medicine so that the user may receive, if the user wants, the specialized or superspecialized service the user requires within a time the president and chief executive officer considers reasonable. Despite any inconsistent provision, the Minister may assume the cost of any service received, in accordance with the directives of the president and chief executive officer, in a non-participating specialized medical centre within the meaning of the second paragraph of section 575 or outside Québec.
