Ministers Lionel Carmant and Christian Dubé acknowledged that there were “errors” in the mental health dashboard on Thursday and committed to correcting them.
“We want to correct the situation,” declared the minister responsible for Social Services, Lionel Carmant. “I don’t understand why we removed certain data from the CRDS [Centre de répartition des demandes de services] because it had been transferred to the access counter. »
The minister was reacting to a report from Duty on the presence in the table of implausible data on psychiatric waiting lists.
It was reported in particular that in certain regions, the names of patients were removed from the waiting list when they were referred to the Adult Mental Health Access Center (GASMA), even if the people had not necessarily been taken in charge.
Notified of the problem in January by The dutythe Ministry of Health had recognized that these data had to be interpreted with “caution”, but had kept them as they were without mentioning it in the dashboard.
A decision that Mr. Carmant promised to correct on Thursday. “We asked that there be a mention, a mention saying that the data must be analyzed with caution. »
Dubé invites people not to generalize
After referring journalists to Mr. Carmant and recognizing the presence of errors, the Minister of Health, Christian Dubé, wanted to defend his dashboard.
“Errors in data happen, but we must not discredit the entire information system we have because a piece of data is not valid,” he said.
The minister also stressed that before the launch of the dashboard in 2022, “there was nothing”, and that it was therefore “quite an improvement”.
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