Background

In late 2020 amid the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, a dedicated volunteer team of frontline healthcare workers and community leaders came together to spearhead the development of not-for-profit Primary Care options which could respond to our community’s growing need for trauma-informed, culturally-safe, longitudinal healthcare.

Within its first two years the Westshore Primary Care Society team had established a non-profit society, successfully obtained Registered Charity status with the Canada Revenue Agency (Charitable Registration #79276 6545 RR0001), and began supporting the transition of a Perinatal Counselling Program from a private practice to a not-for-profit care model. Learn more about our Projects.

In one of the fastest growing regions in the country, with thousands of residents in need of a Primary Care Practitioner, the Westshore Primary Care Society team hopes community members will be eager to offer their input to aid in the organization’s design of future not-for-profit Primary Care clinics.

Our Mission

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. Promote public health by contributing to the development of government policies relating to the provision of and access to primary public health care services.

  4. Do all other things incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the Society’s primary mission deliverables as outlined above.