He shall, in particular,(1) establish health and social services policies, see that the policies are implemented and applied by the agencies, and that they are assessed;
(2) prepare a multi-year strategic plan in accordance with section 431.1;
(3) allocate human, material, information, technological and financial resources equitably among the regions and monitor their utilization;
(4) see to the promotion of teaching and research;
(5) develop management frameworks for human, material and financial resources;
(6) establish policies and orientations relating to the workforce in the health and social services network, monitor their implementation and evaluate them;
(6.1) take measures to ensure users the safe provision of health services and social services;
(6.2) from the content of the local registers referred to in section 183.2, establish and maintain a national register of incidents and accidents having occurred during the provision of health services and social services for the purpose of monitoring and analyzing the causes of incidents and accidents, ensuring that measures are taken to prevent such incidents and accidents from recurring and ensuring that control measures are implemented, where appropriate;
(7) ensure inter-regional coordination of health services and social services, especially in order to make such services more accessible to all segments of the population of the regions of Québec;
(8) take the measures that are best suited to ensure the protection of public health, and ensure national and inter-regional coordination;
(9) determine the orientations with which the procedure for the application of control measures adopted by an institution under section 118.1 must be consistent;
(10) distribute the guidelines for the standards of access, integration, quality, effectiveness and efficiency to the agencies and institutions;
(11) assess the results of implementing the strategic plan and ensure the accountability of the network management based on the guidelines made public by the Minister;
(12) determine the service areas of the integrated university health networks; and
(13) assess and evaluate health and social services.