The aim of Patient First is to provide better support for cancer patients and their families in Québec. How can we do this? By improving their cancer care and services trajectory. This is a unique patient partnership project, since the issues to be addressed by the teams were raised by Oncopole's partner patient committee.

Thanks to this program, research contributes to the continuous improvement of health and social services offered to young people in Québec.

As part of this program, the Unité de soutien SSA Québec provides teams with coaching and methodological expertise in patient-oriented research (POR) requirements.

The Unité de soutien SSA Québec is contributing to the Living Labs on Major Neurocognitive Disorders in order to integrate four trajectory improvement projects into a learning healthcare system perspective.

The Unit is pleased to continue supporting the Aire Ouverte initiative as part of its targeted grants program.

CTQ offers high-quality, impartial, comprehensive, and accessible information about clinical research and clinical trials. The website also provides free tools and services such as a Personalized Clinical Trial Support Service, Québec's Public Clinical Trials Database, a Directory of Patient Organizations and a Glossary of complex medical terms.

After heading up the PaRIS international survey in Québec, Marie-Eve Poitras now represents Canada at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) as part of the PaRIS program.

How can we extend a culture of continuous quality improvement to the entire front line and foster the emergence of learning family medicine groups (GMFs) mobilized to achieve the quintuple aim? How can we mobilize these GMFs to improve organizational and clinical practices and create a healthy, committed community?

On Saturday, September 9, 2023, family and friends are invited to a memorial gathering at the Urgel Bourgie Funeral Complex, 3955 Chemin de la Côte de Liesse (St-Laurent).

Karina Prévost becomes co-leader of the Expériences patient parteners community and a member of the Unité de soutien SSA Québec executive committee.

The family will receive condolences on August 25, 2023, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. at the Complexe Funéraire Mont-Royal.