Victoria indicatorsFamily doctors per 100,000 residents
194 per 100,000 people
No target found. Who could set one: Province of B.C.. Targets and comparisons
This is the first figure shown in this series, so there is no change to report yet. No direction label is shown until a second one is published.
Source: CIHI. We read it on Nov 12, 2026.
Over time
Targets and comparisons
No target found
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.
Source: Ministry of Health 2026/27 to 2028/29 Service Plan, Province of B.C., February 2026. Area: British Columbia. Updated: Yearly, with the provincial budget (February). Licence: Public document, not under an open licence. Quoted with attribution.
Show the numbers as a table
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 194 |
Who decides
Province of B.C. Runs the Medical Services Plan through the Medical Services Commission, sets standards for health services and appoints Island Health’s board. Medicare Protection Act, s. 3
Show the 2 other bodies and the laws
| Body | What it decides | Law or bylaw |
|---|---|---|
| Province of B.C. | Runs the Medical Services Plan through the Medical Services Commission, sets standards for health services and appoints Island Health’s board. | Medicare Protection Act, s. 3 Health Authorities Act, s. 3 Health Authorities Act, s. 4 |
| Island Health | Plans and runs health services in the region: which services, which facilities and the programs that deliver them. | Health Authorities Act, s. 5 |
| Government of Canada and Parliament | Pays the Canada Health Transfer to the Province, on the conditions set in the Canada Health Act. | Federal-Provincial Fiscal Arrangements Act, Part V.1 Canada Health Act, s. 5 and 7 |
Province: last general election October 19, 2024; next set for October 21, 2028 unless called earlier (Constitution Act, s. 23). Canada: last general election April 28, 2025; next set for October 15, 2029 unless called earlier (Canada Elections Act, s. 56.1).
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What this number does not show
- 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.
One more limit
- 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.
Not measured yet in health care: wait to see a specialist before surgery, people waiting for a family doctor in Greater Victoria, waits for detox, and for treatment in Greater Victoria. See all 18 gaps
In plain words
Active physicians whose specialty is family medicine, for every 100,000 people in the South Vancouver Island health service delivery area, as the Canadian Institute for Health Information counts them.
How we decide “No label yet”
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.
More family physicians for the population means more capacity to take patients. 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.
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. The rule.
All notes on this number
Why it matters. It shows how many family doctors there are for the population, one part of whether people can find one.
- 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.
Which places
Area: South Vancouver Island
The Province’s South Vancouver Island health service delivery area, one of three in Island Health.
Included
- The Greater Victoria, Western Communities, Saanich Peninsula and Southern Gulf Islands local health areas (the Province’s local health area boundaries)
Not included
- Central and North Vancouver Island (the other Island Health service delivery areas)
- Deaths are counted by where the drugs were used, not where the person lived
Official definition
Shown for comparison
- Comparison area: All of B.C. The whole province of British Columbia.
How the agency describes it: South Vancouver Island health service delivery area.
How we got it
This number is published by the agency as shown; it is not calculated here. The script reads it from the agency’s own document and refuses to show it unless the expected text is found.
Licence and credits
This figure is public but not under an open licence: the agency publishes it for anyone to read, and it is shown here with credit and a link to the agency’s terms. About licences.
- Licence
- Public data, not under an open licence. Used with attribution. Agency’s terms of use
- Updated by agency
- Yearly (CIHI, autumn); latest release Not stated by the agency
- Retrieved
- Nov 12, 2026, 10:30 PM B.C. time
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Source: Canadian Institute for Health Information. Used under CIHI’s terms of use; not endorsed by CIHI.
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