Alberta using selective data to mask health care failings, Auditor-General says

Alberta’s Auditor-General says the province’s reporting on how the health care system is performing is not credible and has worsened over time – an issue that needs to be corrected if Premier Danielle Smith’s plan to dramatically reform the system is to be fairly evaluated.

Auditor-General Doug Wylie made his assessment in a report, published Thursday, that found data used to validate the early success of Ms. Smith’s plan to improve the province’s health care system were inconsistent and were selected to make “performance look better than it actually was.”