Health Minister Christian Dubé promises 'mammoth' changes to public system
CBC
Quebec Health Minister Christian Dubé has given himself a year to fix staffing shortages in the province's beleaguered health-care system, he told the Coalition Avenir Québec youth caucus this weekend.
Dubé said he wants the network to undergo "mammoth" changes that would reform several areas, at the meeting in Quebec City on Saturday.
He said his intention is to table a health care bill that would include ways to attract nurses back to the public system, which now has about 4,000 nursing positions to fill.
"My mission is to make health workers feel proud of the health network and for them to want to stay in it, or come back to it," Dubé said.
Earlier this month, at a COVID-19 update for the province, Premier François Legault announced his government's intention to create incentives for nurses who had left the public system to return.
He said the government is trying to come up with ways to convince people who have left the profession to come back, by potentially introducing incentives including increasing pay and improving working conditions.
At the CAQ youth meeting, Dubé didn't provide details about what would be in the bill or what those incentives would be.