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

Section 27 Disposition versions

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27. Santé Québec exercises the functions listed below as well as any other auxiliary function it considers necessary for the provision of health services and social services:

(1)  putting in place mechanisms for access to services in the field of health and social services;

(2)  developing a national program on the quality of services;

(3)  establishing a national information filing system and, among other things, keeping in it the records of users who receive health services or social services from public institutions;

(4)  maintaining a national strategic reserve of medications and supplies;

(5)  forming a national users’ committee and seeing to its proper functioning;

(6)  preventing incidents and accidents in the provision of health services and social services from recurring;

(7)  forming public health departments; and

(8)  ensuring the putting in place of mechanisms enabling the consultation and mobilization of actors from the various sectors of activity of community life whose action can have an impact on health and well-being and of other members of the population, with a view to acting on health and well-being determinants and to improving the health services and social services offered.

For the purposes of this Act, “incident” means an action or situation that does not have consequences for the state of health or well-being of a user, but the outcome of which is unusual and could have consequences under different circumstances.

2023, c. 34, s. 27.