We are the South Island Primary Care Society.
The South Island Primary Care Society is a community-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to increasing access to primary care across the southern region of Vancouver Island.
The South Island Primary Care Society is a community-driven, not-for-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to longitudinal primary care across South Vancouver Island. We recruit family physicians and nurse practitioners — often from outside of British Columbia and internationally — and remove the administrative and operational burden of clinic ownership so they can focus entirely on patient care. By owning and operating clinics, building strong municipal and community partnerships, and supporting team-based care environments, we create sustainable spaces where providers want to practice and patients can finally attach to a family doctor. In just over two years, the Society has grown from zero providers to dozens serving thousands of residents, demonstrating that with the right model and community support, meaningful solutions to the primary care crisis are achievable..
Our Strategic Plan
Over the next 5 years, the society’s strategic plan includes:
Evaluate our framework for converting existing private practice clinics to society-operated non-profit clinics
Attached 50,000 patients to Primary Care Providers on the South Island
Evaluate our tailored recruitment strategy for Primary Care Practitioners specific to the South Island region
Initiating new capital projects aimed at expanding Primary Care capacity to accommodate the projected population growth in the region. This includes collaborating with other local organizations with similar goals, as well as exploring partnerships with municipal governments and other public and private sector organizations.
Our Mission
Promote the health of the public at large in the Greater Victoria area of British Columbia, by:
establishing and operating community-based primary care clinics and
entering into contracts with primary care practitioners to provide services to prevent or relieve physical and mental health conditions at low or no cost to the public.
Advance education among primary health care providers in the Greater Victoria area by conducting research on health care service delivery and providing seminars and workshops on establishing and operating health clinics, innovations in primary health care delivery, and related matters.
Promote public health by contributing to the development of government policies relating to the provision of and access to primary public health care services.
Do all other things incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the Society’s primary mission deliverables as outlined above.