71.1. Under the authority of the director of professional services of the hospital centre, the head of a clinical department shall(1) coordinate, subject to section 112, the professional activities of the physicians, dentists and, where applicable, clinical biochemists of his department;
(1.1) subject to the second paragraph, manage the resources of his department to the extent provided by the organization plan of the hospital centre;
(2) devise, for his department, rules governing the use of the resources of the hospital centre; the rules may provide administrative sanctions, in particular, to limit or suspend the right of a physician or dentist to use the resources of the hospital centre;
(3) inform, where such is the case, the director of professional services and the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists of any failure by a physician or dentist of his department to comply with the rules governing the use of the resources;
(4) see to the distribution of medical and dental care in his department.
The head of the radiology clinical department and the head of the clinical department of medical biology laboratories shall manage the resources of their clinical departments to the extent provided by regulation or, failing that, in the organization plan of the hospital centre. The Government may provide by regulation that the management of all or part of the resources of the radiology clinical department or the clinical department of medical biology laboratories be entrusted by the director of professional services to a person other than the head of the clinical departments.
The rules governing the use of the resources must provide, in particular, that no bed may be reserved for a particular physician or dentist for beneficiaries treated by him and that, in case of necessity, the director of professional services or his representative may designate a department or service in which a bed must be put at the disposal of the beneficiary.
The rules governing the use of the resources come into force upon approval by the board of directors which shall first obtain the opinion of the council of physicians, dentists and pharmacists.
1981, c. 22, s. 55; 1984, c. 47, s. 168; 1984, c. 47, s. 208; 1986, c. 57, s. 6; 1989, c. 35, s. 2.