More specifically, the Minister(1) establishes health and social services policies, in particular with a view to enhancing the value of the services for users, ensures that they are implemented and assesses them;
(2) promotes teaching, research, evaluation of technologies and methods of intervention, innovations and advanced practices as well as transfer of knowledge, and sees to their promotion;
(3) determines orientations and performance indicators relating to standards of access, integration, quality, effectiveness and efficiency as concerns services, taking into account their value for users, as well as orientations and performance indicators relating to respect for users’ rights and to partnership with users, and disseminates the orientations and indicators among Santé Québec and its institutions;
(4) determines orientations, targets and standards for the user complaint examination regime;
(5) ensures accountability regarding management of the health and social services network on the basis of the Minister’s orientations and indicators, and assesses and evaluates the results with respect to health and social services.