If it takes power in the fall, the Parti québécois promised significant changes in health

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Sunday, 18 February 2018 17:14

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The Parti québécois promised, if it came to power next fall, “put the health system at the service of patients”, in the following year.

At a press conference on Sunday, the leader of the PQ, Jean-François Lisée, accompanied by the party spokesman on health, Diane Lamarre, and the spokesman on social services, Dave Turcotte, presented the schedule of work in health of the government of the Parti québécois.

“The idea is to quickly correct the situation of access to health care for Quebecers, as soon as October 2018, and in the 12 months that follow, particularly in redistributing resources in the right place, making Quebec a nation more fit, and supporting health professionals as well as community-based organizations”, they explain in a press release.

Their plan includes a reorientation of the “billion promised to the doctors to the current needs of Québec”; “a real autonomy to 200 000 health professionals, including nurses and pharmacists”; an alleviation of “the burden of work of the nurses and orderlies”, and, as the related VAT News, on Sunday, the opening of”a network of clinical specialist nurses, especially in CLSC, which will be open in the evenings and weekends”.

“Over the past 15 years, Quebecers pay the price for the poor management of the health system by the liberals. […] Without promising to fix everything in a few weeks, we are going to completely change their approach and will have the groundwork for a system centered on the patient, not on the remuneration of physicians, said Jean-François Lisée. As soon as October 2018, we will start the deregulation of professions, and we will be adding resources in home care as well as for families in which a child is struggling with a disorder on the autism spectrum or a developmental disability.”