Health care

Governance of the system According to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), increasing the efficiency of the health system is an essential part of the effort to reconcile the increase in the demand for services with the constraints of public financing. [...] According to the authors of the report on health care in the OECD, the repeated injection of money has only resulted in the postponement of necessary reforms. [...] It is responsible for the development of policies and programs, for the allocation of financial resources and the control of their use, and for the evaluation of the performance of the system and its components. [...] The Régie should likewise be given the function of evaluating the performance of institutions in the system, namely the hospital centres, the CLSC1 and the clinics financed primarily by the State. [...] In short, the sharing of functions proposed between the Ministry and the Régie would allow our health system, following the example of numerous countries of the European Union, to embark on promising reforms both for the mid and long- term.