Premium of $ 105 for get the time: Header is shocked a bonus… he has negotiated

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The minister of Health, Gaétan Barrette

Charles Lecavalier

Friday, December 8, 2017 12:20

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Friday, December 8, 2017 12:20

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Gaétan Barrette said to be “scandalized” by a premium of $ 105 for surgeons punctual so that it has itself negotiated.

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“Myself, I scandalisait, and it made me shocked again today”, launched by the minister of Health on Friday during a media scrum at the exit of the liberal caucus.

The government Couillard has paid for three years $ 41 million in bonus only to that of the doctors arrive and end on time in the operating rooms, according to the Bureau of investigation.

Physicians who do surgical interventions have indeed the right to a “bonus for attendance” so that the operation rooms of the hospitals to be in operation between 8 a.m. and 16 p.m. in the afternoon during the week.

Mr. Barrette understands that this situation might offend the population, but believes that “a lot” of physicians are in the money, and that “the lever that made the most change their behavior”, it is “the income and terms and conditions that are attached to it”.

“Historically, there has been a problem of management of the use of the operation time. To have an operating theatre that is operating at full capacity, it is necessary that people come to work on time,” said Dr. Barrette.

But as reported in the Journal, the bonus has had only a limited effect : the number of operations carried out since the introduction of this premium attendance has increased by only 1 % between 2012 and 2017.

Mr. Barrette said that this money “would have been spent anyway” because it is part of an overall package of remuneration of doctors. Québec and the Fédération des médecins specialists have simply felt that this incentive was the most appropriate way to use these funds.

Mr. Barrette has said that bill 130 will allow him to act more expeditiously to require that a physician arrives on time to the operating room.