Healthcare is the biggest and most important service the government provides to Albertans.

 

Albertans are paying for the most expensive healthcare system per capita of any province in Canada, yet we are not receiving the level of care provided by the best performing health systems in other jurisdictions.

 

We have some of the best medical professionals in the world, and many of the building blocks are in place to create a better and more integrated system of care. But medical professionals and providers continue to work in administrative silos, and not around the needs of the most important participant in the system—the patient.

 

Better Healthcare for Albertans: A Report by the Office of the Auditor General of Alberta offers an analysis of the root causes behind the lack of progress toward effective integration of healthcare in Alberta. It identifies opportunities based on models from other jurisdictions to take Alberta’s health system to a higher level in a quantum leap rather than through incremental change and reorganization.