Alberta Doctors' Digest

On March 5, 2012, the Honorable John Vertes was appointed by the Health Quality Council of Alberta to act as a one-person panel to investigate the possibility of improper preferential access being given to publicly funded health services (otherwise described as “queue jumping”). The terms of reference of the inquiry were to firstly consider whether improper preferential access was occurring; and secondly, if so, to make recommendations to prevent such improper preferential access in the future.