Article content

Alberta’s auditor general is going to try to fix what ails health care.

Merwan Saher is launching a comprehensive review of his office’s past audits of health-care programs to see if he can identify the fundamental problems in the Alberta medical system and recommend a way to finally fix them.

We apologize, but this video has failed to load.

tap here to see other videos from our team. Try refreshing your browser, or Auditor general investigates what's wrong with health-care delivery in Alberta Back to video

“We don’t want to do a big, new audit,” he said Friday. “We want to look at the audits we’ve already done and use the findings we already have and the recommendations we’ve already made.”

Saher hopes to report findings that will be “profoundly useful” by February, 2016.

“It’s not for us to specify how things should be,” Saher said in an interview. “We’re entitled to look at the way things are and express a view on whether or not the way things are might be an impediment to the best possible health care, in terms of quality and at the best cost.”

The review was welcomed by Alberta Health.

Department spokesman Cameron Traynor said Health Minister Sarah Hoffman is always interested in working with the auditor general on his recommendations.