Our Strategic Plan
Over the next 5 years, the society’s strategic plan includes:
Developing a framework for converting existing private practice clinics to society-operated non-profit clinics
Facilitating the transition of two existing West Shore clinics that have expressed interest in becoming not-for-profit clinics operated by our organization
Designing a tailored recruitment strategy for Primary Care Practitioners specific to the West Shore 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.
Westshore Primary Care Society Clinics:
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Colwood Family Practice
Colwood Family Practice offers both Family Practice Services and Urgent Care. The Family Practice works in a multidisciplinary care model offering their patients mental health services. Colwood Family Practice is also a teaching facility, supporting medical students and residents.
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Grow Medical Clinic
Grow Health is a team that offers Family Practice and Maternity Care in Victoria, BC. It is a multidisciplinary team of Nurses, Mental Health specialists and Medical Office staff, and have in-house Pediatric Specialists. Grow is also a teaching facility, supporting medical students and residents.
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Langford Private Practice
Langford Private Practice currently hosts a Family Practice.
Our Projects
CRD Perinatal Counselling Program
The South Island Primary Care Society is proud to be a long-term supporter of the CRD Perinatal Counselling Program, an innovate local program that gives new and expecting parents access to mental health counselling.
The program delivers crucial specialized services to parents who experience a depression, anxiety, or adjustment disorder during pregnancy or within nine months after birth. Program services ensure that parents are not barred from effective counselling treatments when they lack the health insurance coverage and financial means to get it when they need it.
The program is operated though the McGee Therapy Clinic and a team of independent, local registered counsellors with specialized training and experience in perinatal mental health care. Since 2020, the program has served a thousand families across the 13 municipalities of the Capital Regional District, providing approximately 700 counselling hours annually.
Parents can access program services by referral from a local primary care provider. The South Island Primary Care Society administers the program with gratitude for the generous, multi-year funding commitment from a local charitable foundation that expires June 2025.
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What we don’t do… yet
At this time, we do not yet have the ability to assist individual patients with finding Primary Care clinicians.
Please bear with us as we continue the work to increase community access to high-quality Primary Care for the communities of Colwood, Esquimalt, Highlands, Langford, Metchosin, and View Royal. Click on the link below to be added to our mailing list and receive updates about our progress.
In the meantime, if you are trying to find a family doctor or nurse practitioner, please contact the HealthLinkBC Health Connect Registry for the Western Communities.
If you need health advice now, please call 8-1-1. If you need to see a doctor, there are clinics in the area that offer walk-in services and an after-hours urgent care clinic for urgent primary care needs. You can find these using Medi-Map.