Minister Dubé’s plan will make it possible to act on four foundations of the health and social services system: 

• • Human resources;
  • Access to data;
  • Information technology;
  • Infrastructure.

The Québec Infrastructure Plan 2022-2032 provides for $22.8B in health investments;

• • 47% for keeping existing assets in good condition;
  • 53% for the construction of new infrastructure.

Investment of $8.9B over the next 5 years:

• •  $5.2B to restore the health and social services system:
    • Make major changes within health institutions ($1B, including $195.7M in 2022-2023);
    • Improve work management and delivery ($3.4B, including $604M in 2022-2023):
      • Decentralized scheduling;
      • Elimination of the excessive use of overtime;
      • More full-time staff in hospitals;
      • Better work-family balance;
      • Hiring of administrative officers to support clinical staff;
      • Increase the number of pharmacists and technicians in hospitals;
      • Improve pre-hospital emergency services.
    • Modernize the health system ($789M, including $105.1M in 2022-2023):
      • Accelerating the shift to cloud computing in order to protect data;
      • Modernizing clinical and administrative processes to automate manual and recurring administrative and clinical operations;
      • Development of new applications relevant to health institutions, such as a centralized admission, discharge and transfer management system and a system to optimize bed management.

Request to increase the Canada Health Transfer, unconditionally, to 35% of provincial health spending. For Quebec, this increase would represent $6B per year.

$3.7B to enhance care and services for the population:

• • Continue strengthening care and services for seniors and caregivers ($2.6B, including $234.6M in 2022-2023):
    • Strengthen home support services ($100M in 2022-2023);
    • Improve care and services for caregivers: $250.3M over 5 years ($37.9M in 2022-2023):
      • Strengthen care and services for caregivers ($12.9M in 2022-2023);
      • Ensure the long-term viability of L’Appui pour les proches aidants ($25M in 2022-2023).
    • Open the first seniors’ homes (maisons des aînés) and alternative homes ($75M in 2022-2023);
    • Harmonize public and private CHSLDs ($19.3M in 2022-2023);
    • Ensure optimal use of medication for seniors in residential care ($2.4M in 2022-2023);
    • Improve the accessibility and quality of health and social services ($546M, including $83.9M in 2022-2023):
      • Facilitate access to front-line medical services ($27.3M in 2022-2023):
        • The front-line access point (guichet d’accès à la première ligne) project implemented in Bas-Saint-Laurent will be rolled out across Quebec.
      • Improve patient flow in emergency rooms and hospitals ($5M in 2022-2023):
        • Addition of emergency room coordinators.
      • Step up prevention and health promotion efforts ($35.1M in 2022-2023);
      • Deploy clinics to treat complex illnesses, including long COVID ($4.1M in 2022-2023).
    • $508.5M to improve services for vulnerable people (including $75.7M in 2022-2023).

Gradual withdrawal, over 5 years, of the subsidy paid to care staff in private seniors’ residences (RPAs).