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  "id": "family-doctors-per-100k",
  "category": "Health care access",
  "title": "Family doctors per 100,000 residents, South Vancouver Island",
  "geography": "South Vancouver Island health service delivery area",
  "scope": "region",
  "levels": [
    "Provincial (health system)",
    "Island Health"
  ],
  "plain_question": "How many family medicine physicians are there for every 100,000 residents?",
  "value": 194.1,
  "display_value": "194",
  "unit": "family physicians per 100,000 people, 2025",
  "period": "Calendar year 2025 (December 31)",
  "period_start": "2025-12-31",
  "period_end": "2025-12-31",
  "comparison": {
    "previous_period": null,
    "previous_value": null,
    "change_percent": null
  },
  "trend": "context",
  "direction_good": "up",
  "right_direction": "More family physicians for the population means more capacity to take patients.",
  "trend_basis": "194.1 family medicine physicians per 100,000 people in 2025 (901 physicians, against 783 in 2021, +15.1%). B.C.: 145.0. Specialists: 184.7 per 100,000.",
  "since_text": "901 family physicians in 2025, 783 in 2021. B.C. 145 per 100,000.",
  "compare_text": "B.C. 145",
  "caveats": [
    "CIHI counts active physicians whose specialty is family medicine, from Scott’s Medical Database and provincial licensing data. It counts doctors, not how many patients they take or how many hours they work; some work in hospitals, emergency rooms or walk-in clinics rather than in family practice.",
    "The rate is CIHI’s, for 2025. CIHI’s table gives the 2021 count but not the 2021 rate, so no change in the rate is shown; the count is listed instead.",
    "Victoria is home to many physicians who serve the whole Island, which raises the area’s rate."
  ],
  "charts": [],
  "series": [
    {
      "period": "2025",
      "value": 194.1
    }
  ],
  "source": {
    "name": "Canadian Institute for Health Information, Supply, Distribution and Migration of Physicians in Canada, 2025: Data Tables (Table C)",
    "url": "https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/supply-distribution-migration-physicians-in-canada-2025-data-tables-en.xlsx",
    "dataset_url": "https://www.cihi.ca/en/physicians",
    "download_url": "https://www.cihi.ca/sites/default/files/document/supply-distribution-migration-physicians-in-canada-2025-data-tables-en.xlsx",
    "locator": "Data tables, Table C “Profile of family medicine physicians and specialists by health region”, row 5941 South Vancouver Island HSDA",
    "reads": "Family medicine physicians: 783 (2021), 901 (2025); per 100,000 population, 2025: 194.1"
  },
  "licence": {
    "name": "Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution.",
    "url": "https://www.cihi.ca/en/terms-of-use",
    "open": false,
    "note": "CIHI’s terms allow use for education and non-commercial purposes with credit to CIHI. This site is non-commercial."
  },
  "attribution": "Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information. Used under CIHI’s terms of use; not endorsed by CIHI.",
  "verified_text": [
    "South Vancouver Island HSDA | 783 | 901 | 194.1467240703152"
  ],
  "refresh_frequency": "Yearly (CIHI, autumn)",
  "data_published": null,
  "retrieved_at": "2026-11-13T05:30:45Z",
  "licence_type": "public",
  "source_tier": 2,
  "measure_kind": "input",
  "better_measure": null,
  "status_rule": {
    "rule": "One rule for every measure: a change smaller than 5% of the earlier value, or smaller than the agency's own margin of error, is “About the same”; no change is calculated across a marked break in a series; homelessness estimates, prices, staffing and comparison pages are shown for context without a label.",
    "reason": "Shown for context, without a better or worse label.",
    "threshold_percent": 5.0
  },
  "changes": {
    "year": null,
    "five_year": null
  },
  "direction": {
    "type": "outcome",
    "rule": "Outcome measures read Better, Worse or About the same; published government targets read Ahead of, On or Behind target; value-judgement measures read Rising, Falling or Steady in a neutral colour. A change smaller than the agency's own margin of error, or otherwise smaller than 5% of the earlier value, is About the same (or Steady). No change is calculated across a marked break in a series.",
    "key": "nolabel",
    "label": "No label yet",
    "vs": null,
    "cur": "Calendar year 2025 (December 31)",
    "why": "There is no earlier figure in the same series to compare with yet. A direction label needs at least two comparable periods, so none is shown until a second one is published.",
    "long_why": "There is only one period so far."
  },
  "benchmark": {
    "rung": 5,
    "rung_name": "No target found",
    "as_of": "2026-11-12",
    "items": [
      {
        "kind": "none",
        "label": "No target found",
        "text": "No target for the number of family physicians per resident found in the Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan (February 2026), as of November 12, 2026. Who could set one: the Province of B.C.",
        "area": "British Columbia",
        "source": {
          "title": "Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan",
          "publisher": "Province of B.C.",
          "date": "February 2026",
          "url": "https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2026/sp/pdf/ministry/hlth.pdf",
          "terms": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright",
          "refresh": "Yearly, with the provincial budget (February)",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "moh_sp"
        },
        "documents_checked": null
      },
      {
        "kind": "related",
        "label": "Related target",
        "text": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims for 78% of British Columbians to be attached to a family physician or nurse practitioner in 2026/27, rising to 80% in 2028/29. It counts patients attached, not doctors.",
        "area": "British Columbia",
        "source": {
          "title": "Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan",
          "publisher": "Province of B.C.",
          "date": "February 2026",
          "url": "https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2026/sp/pdf/ministry/hlth.pdf",
          "terms": "https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/home/copyright",
          "refresh": "Yearly, with the provincial budget (February)",
          "licence": "Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.",
          "checked": "2026-11-12",
          "key": "moh_sp",
          "page": 8
        },
        "documents_checked": null,
        "see": "family-doctor-attachment"
      }
    ],
    "drawn": [],
    "rule": "Highest rung found is shown; the site never sets a target. Methods, Targets."
  },
  "benchmarks": [
    {
      "rung": 2,
      "kind": "related",
      "label": "Related target, not drawn: the same plan aims for 78% of British Columbians to be attached to a family physician or nurse practitioner in 2026/27, rising to 80% in 2028/29. It counts patients attached, not doctors.",
      "short": null,
      "document": "moh_sp",
      "page": 8,
      "area": "British Columbia",
      "fit": "text_only",
      "same_area": false,
      "related_reason": "Different unit, definition, period or area; written under the chart, not drawn.",
      "document_url": "https://www.bcbudget.gov.bc.ca/2026/sp/pdf/ministry/hlth.pdf",
      "applies_here": false,
      "same_measure": false
    }
  ],
  "highest_rung": 5,
  "decided_by": [
    {
      "body": "BC",
      "name": "Province of B.C.",
      "decides": "Runs the Medical Services Plan through the Medical Services Commission, sets standards for health services and appoints Island Health’s board.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "mpa3",
          "label": "Medicare Protection Act, s. 3",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96286_01#section3"
        },
        {
          "key": "haa3",
          "label": "Health Authorities Act, s. 3",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96180_01#section3"
        },
        {
          "key": "haa4",
          "label": "Health Authorities Act, s. 4",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96180_01#section4"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "IH",
      "name": "Island Health",
      "decides": "Plans and runs health services in the region: which services, which facilities and the programs that deliver them.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "haa5",
          "label": "Health Authorities Act, s. 5",
          "url": "https://www.bclaws.gov.bc.ca/civix/document/id/complete/statreg/96180_01#section5"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    },
    {
      "body": "CAN",
      "name": "Government of Canada and Parliament",
      "decides": "Pays the Canada Health Transfer to the Province, on the conditions set in the Canada Health Act.",
      "laws": [
        {
          "key": "fpfaa",
          "label": "Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Part V.1",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/F-8/FullText.html"
        },
        {
          "key": "cha",
          "label": "Canada Health Act, s. 5 and 7",
          "url": "https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-6/FullText.html"
        }
      ],
      "last": null,
      "next": null
    }
  ],
  "main_decision_maker": "Province of B.C.",
  "label_1y": {
    "key": "nolabel",
    "label": "No label yet"
  },
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  "target_line": {
    "form": 4,
    "text": "No target found",
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}