Health Link BC has set up registries for those on the Saanch Peninsula and in the Western Communities who are looking for care.

Health Link BC has set up registries for those on the Saanch Peninsula and in the Western Communities who are looking for care.

It is a good idea for everyone waiting for a family practitioner to register with the program in their area. See below for details.

As far as Find a Doctor BC goes we will continue to look for family practitioners in these areas as we are aware of clinics who are not opting-in to the program.


From the Health Connect Registry website

Health Connect Registry, Saanich Peninsula
The Saanich Peninsula Primary Care Network (PCN) team is working with clinics in your community to help you find a family doctor or nurse practitioner. To support this work, we have launched a community-wide registry called the Health Connect Registry.

You can register if you, your family, or a person in your care lives within one of these communities: Royal Oak/Cordova Bay, Prospect Lake, Central Saanich, North Saanich and Sidney.

Once registered, you will be contacted directly when a primary care provider is available.

Heath Connect Registry

Health Connect Registry, Western Communities
The Western Community Primary Care Network (PCN) team is working with clinics in your community to help you find a family doctor or nurse practitioner. To support this work, we have launched a community-wide registry called the Health Connect Registry.

You can register if you, your family, or a person in your care lives within one of these communities: Colwood, Langford/Highland, Esquimalt/View Royal, Metchosin, Sooke and Juan de Fuca Coast.

Once registered, you will be contacted directly when a primary care provider is available.

Heath Connect Registry

North Vancouver Clinics Added to Findadoctorbc.ca

After a year of working out the logistics and strategies for helping people find family doctors and nurse practitioners on Vancouver Island, we have started our expansion into the rest of BC by adding North Vancouver Clinics.

We added 27 clinics, representing over 130 family doctors. We found 12 clinics (a very high percentage) reported they are accepting new patients on their websites, but websites are often out of date. If people call clinics and find their accepting status is different than reported, please take a moment to fill of the “Call Report Form” provided on the contact page to let us know so we can update the information.

Find clinics accepting new patients in North Vancouver here.

Review of activity in October 2019

As of October 31, 2019, out of 180 clinics being monitored on Vancouver Island there were 12 clinics accepting new patients and 5 that might be accepting new patients.

During October, through our users and our own calling of clinics, we were able to find family clinics that started accepting new patients or started active wait-lists in

  • Victoria
  • Duncan
  • Shawnigan Lake
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