Alberta Opposition NDP urges audit of failed provincial lab testing privatization plan

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NDP’s health critic David Shepherd says an independent analysis is needed, and that the UCP government can’t be trusted to transparently report what went wrong

Alberta’s Opposition NDP is asking the auditor-general to investigate the province’s failed attempt to privatize community lab testing.

Last week, Health Minster Adriana LaGrange pulled the plug on the handover of community lab testing to private provider Dynalife after months of complaints of long wait times and service bottlenecks in Calgary and the southern region.

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