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Citizen Members
Submit your application by March 16th.

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Expert Members
Submit your application through your affiliate organization by April 11th, 2025.
Health and Welfare Commissioner
The Health and Welfare Commissioner (CSBE or Commissaire à la santé et au bien-être) is an advisory body whose mission is to assess the performance of Quebec’s health and social services system. It advises the government on ways to improve the system. It also informs the public about major health and welfare issues.
Be part of the 2025-2028 Consultation Forum
The Health and Welfare Commissioner invites you to become a member of the Consultation Forum to take part in a unique deliberative process. The Consultation Forum is a group of 27 people: 18 citizens and 9 experts in health and welfare.
It provides the Commissioner with its perspective on various issues regarding the health and social services system, as well as the health and welfare of the population.
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Submit your application starting February 10th, 2025
Does this challenge spark your interest? To become a member of the Consultation Forum for the next 3 years (2025–2028), first check whether you are eligible to be a Citizen Member or an Expert Member. You can apply in 3 ways:
- Through this website, no later than March 16th, 2025, for Citizen Member applications
- By mail, no later than March 16th, 2025, for Citizen Member applications
- Through your affiliate organization, no later than April 11th, 2025, for Expert Member applications

Selection procedure
To accurately reflect the diversity of Quebec’s population, the Forum’s composition and selection process will take into account gender parity, as well as regional, generational, sociocultural, ethnocultural and linguistic representation. The Forum will also include individuals with specific expertise in health and social services who want to take part in this interdisciplinary process.


Expert Members
Submit your application through your affiliate organization by April 11th, 2025.
Past achievements

Services at the right time and place!
The Forum’s deliberations influenced the CSBE’s insights for its report Aging Well at Home – Tome 4: A Much-Needed Transformation. The Forum even published its own report on the subject: Quel avenir pour le soutien à domicile ? Du soutien à domicile vers le maintien de l’autonomie : pour un écosystème visant le mieux-être des personnes (What does the future hold for home care? Home care in support of maintaining independence: for an ecosystem designed to improve people’s well-being).
In this report, members consider independence to be the core value of home care and support services. They believe that people should not only be supported so they can remain at home. They must also be supported in maintaining their independence, in their own community. To achieve this, a number of stakeholders in both home care and civil society need to be involved.
Members also expressed their views on the social acceptability of making greater use of community organizations or private-sector companies. The aim would be to improve the range of home care services available.

Is the basket of services complete?
Not really, concluded the Consultation Forum, which examined the state of the basket of health and social services. The Forum’s views informed the CSBE’s insights in its report Entendre la voix citoyenne pour améliorer l’offre de soins et services (Listening to the public’s experiences to improve care and services), published in 2016. This report outlines the Forum’s concerns about the difficulty of accessing services outside hospitals, low investment in prevention efforts and regional disparities in access to covered services.