S-4.2 - Act respecting health services and social services

Section 185.1 Disposition versions

2017-11-10

185.1. The organization plan of a hospital centre must also provide for a central mechanism for managing access to the specialized and superspecialized services of the centre’s clinical departments. The mechanism must provide that a physician must enter a user on the access list for the specialized or superspecialized services of the centre’s clinical departments as soon as the physician determines that such services are required. The mechanism must also include specific rules to be followed to enter a user on the access list for the specialized or superspecialized services of a department, the manner in which the estimated date when services will be received is to be determined and communicated to the user and, should the services not be provided on that date, the alternative arrangements to be offered to the user, such as setting a new date to be agreed to by the user, seeing another physician in the department concerned or having recourse to another institution. The mechanism is implemented after consultation with the heads of the clinical departments concerned and the institution’s council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists.

To ensure uniform management of access lists under the first paragraph, the Minister may determine the information to be collected and used by the institutions for the day-to-day management of their access lists. If the Minister so requires, this information must be communicated to the provider chosen under section 520.3.0.1, in the manner and within the time specified by the Minister, so that the provider may retain and manage the information for each institution.

The organization plan must also identify the person responsible for the central access management mechanism. Under the authority of the director of professional services, that person shall see to it that each clinical department head concerned ensures the proper operation of the mechanism in the department. In addition, that person shall offer, to users unable to receive the services on the date communicated to them, the alternative arrangements specified in the mechanism. Finally, that person shall make any adjustments required by the Minister’s directives under section 431.2.

The executive director shall report to the board of directors at least once every three months on the effectiveness of the central access management mechanism, in particular as regards waiting times calculated from the time users are entered on the access list referred to in the first paragraph to the time they receive the specialized or superspecialized services they require.

2006, c. 43, s. 7; 2017, c. 21, s. 25.

2007-03-01

185.1. The organization plan of a hospital centre must also provide for a central mechanism for managing access to the specialized and superspecialized services of the centre’s clinical departments. The mechanism must include specific rules to be followed to enter a user on the access list for the specialized or superspecialized services of a department, the manner in which the estimated date when services will be received is to be determined and communicated to the user and, should the services not be provided on that date, the alternative arrangements to be offered to the user, such as setting a new date to be agreed to by the user, seeing another physician in the department concerned or having recourse to another institution. The mechanism is implemented after consultation with the heads of the clinical departments concerned and the institution’s council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists.

To ensure uniform management of access lists under the first paragraph, the Minister may determine the information to be collected and used by the institutions for the day-to-day management of their access lists. If the Minister so requires, this information must be communicated to the provider chosen under section 520.3.0.1, in the manner and within the time specified by the Minister, so that the provider may retain and manage the information for each institution.

The organization plan must also identify the person responsible for the central access management mechanism. Under the authority of the director of professional services, that person shall see to it that each clinical department head concerned ensures the proper operation of the mechanism in the department. In addition, that person shall offer, to users unable to receive the services on the date communicated to them, the alternative arrangements specified in the mechanism. Finally, that person shall make any adjustments required by the Minister’s directives under section 431.2.

The executive director shall report to the board of directors at least once every three months on the effectiveness of the central access management mechanism, in particular as regards waiting times calculated from the time users are entered on the access list referred to in the first paragraph to the time they receive the specialized or superspecialized services they require.

2006, c. 43, s. 7.