Alberta Auditor General Fred Dunn plans to bring the province's much-criticized H1N1 vaccination program under the microscope.

Dunn told Alberta's public accounts committee yesterday that an audit of the vaccine rollout and the province's pandemic response has been pencilled into his to-do list for next spring.

And he's hoping to see if any mistakes were made and how they could be fixed should a future pandemic sweep through Alberta.

"We want a full reporting on the results achieved, the costs incurred and with all the efforts Alberta went through, how did we stack up to other jurisdictions?" he said.

"We also want to come up with some lessons learned."

The probe, which Dunn said wouldn't be completed until October 2010, would likely also include the participation of federal Auditor General Sheila Fraser, who has expressed an interest in how the vaccine was doled out by federal health officials.

News of the proposed audit came as Alberta Health Services continued to expand its list of those eligible for the vaccine, adding children under 18 and their parents starting tomorrow.

They will join seniors and chronic risk groups who are now all eligible for the shot. Dr. Andre Corriveau, Alberta's chief medical officer of health, said the vaccine will be available to the general public as soon as next week.

"We're expecting a sharp increase in the delivery of vaccine next week and we plan to open our clinics to the general public sometime early next week," he said.

"But we're hoping people won't all feel the urge to run into a lineup right away."

Corriveau said the outbreak appears to be levelling off in the community despite the announcement of another person claimed by H1N1, bringing the death toll to 43 since April.

He added some 600,000 Albertans have been immunized and by tomorrow the province should have about 500,000 doses of the vaccine stockpiled with much more supply on the way.

NDP Leader Brian Mason called for an audit into the province's handling of the vaccination campaign last week and hopes Dunn's probe will shed some light on what he said was a botched program.

"There have been some big screwups with this H1N1 vaccination program, and the government and public health administrators made some serious mistakes that need to be looked at," he said.

"All the experts say a bigger, more dangerous pandemic is coming sometime, so we need to make sure we get it right for the next one."