G-1.021 - Act respecting the governance of the health and social services system

Section 22 Disposition versions

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22. With a view to improving the health and well-being of the population, the Minister determines priorities, objectives and orientations in the field of health and social services and sees to their implementation.

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.

The Minister publishes, on a regular basis, the information that enables monitoring of the indicators the Minister has determined as well as the information that relates to the results referred to in subparagraph 5 of the second paragraph.

2023, c. 34, s. 22.