South Island Primary Care Society

10/29/2026

West Saanich Medical

Urgent Care Availability: TODAY Oct 29 days and evening, and Oct 30

📲 REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT ONLINE:

https://westsaanichmedical.com/

You don't need to have a family doctor to access care. We're here to help our community get the healthcare they need, when they need it.

#105-4442 West Saanich Road, PH: 250-590-8378 Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4 pm

10/27/2026

We have appointments available this week (Oct 27-30) at the Colwood Urgent Appointment clinic located at 1910 Sooke Road for acute and episodic care.

Please email your name and phone number to [email protected] and a staff member will contact you to discuss scheduling you an appointment. Please note that upon emailing you should receive an automatic response with our current wait time for a call back. If you do not receive this please check your spam folder and/or ensure you have spelled the email address correctly. If you have checked both of these and still did not receive the automatic response, please give us a call at 250-940-0877 to discuss an appointment.

Thank you!

10/24/2026

Our Executive Director, Alyssa Andres, and Dr. Chew, Medical Director of our West Saanich location, were pleased to meet with Mayor-Elect Rishi Sharma quickly after being elected in.

We discussed the society’s plans to help address the significant number of Saanich residents who need a family doctor. A key priority is ensuring the long-term sustainability of the West Saanich Medical Clinic, which provides episodic care to more than 10,000 patients, family practice, and has served the community for over 30 years, including Cantonese-speaking residents and populations that have a harder time accessing care.

We’re working to increase access by expanding clinic hours and strengthening succession planning to build more healthcare access with new clinics and more doctors. Our immediate focus is to retain the health-care infrastructure already in place while building capacity to serve more people in the community.

It was great to meet Mayor-Elect Sharma. We look forward to working together to navigate this health-care crisis.

10/23/2026

Urgent Care Availability: Friday October 23rd

West Saanich Medical

📲 REQUEST AN APPOINTMENT ONLINE:
https://westsaanichmedical.com/

You don't need to have a family doctor to access care. We're here to help our community get the healthcare they need, when they need it.

10/20/2026

We have urgent care appointments available today Oct 20th 2026 at our West Saanich Clinic.

Request an appointment online:

https://westsaanichmedical.com/?fbclid=IwY2xjawVEewpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5c9w8Jsv2jILRr9brPsShpgpsoTj8fGM82sfhArZpni2XMdGJteqsxYESVHw_aem_xWvrJLLMLYeQqmSx9bJBfA

#105-4442 West Saanich Road, PH: 250-590-8378 Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4 pm

10/19/2026

URGENT CARE APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE!

West Saanich Medical Clinic | October 19–23

We have urgent care appointments available throughout the week, including daytime and evening appointments!

Our walk-in clinic provides episodic medical care for adults and children of all ages, including:

Colds, coughs, sore throats and infections

Sprains, strains and minor injuries

UTIs, headaches and stomach concerns

Prescription refills and referrals when appropriate

Skin concerns and earaches

Birth control counselling and other primary care needs

Appointments are triaged based on medical urgency and availability.

📲 Request an appointment online:

#105-4442 West Saanich Road, PH: 250-590-8378 Monday to Friday 8:30 am to 4 pm

10/09/2026

[Part 2] One Exam Room. A Community of People Behind It.

This week, The Metchosin Clinic opened its doors.

One exam room, inside Metchosin Pharmacy.

It might seem like a small beginning, but to us, and to the people who have fought so hard for healthcare in this community, it represents something much bigger.

It represents access to care today, instead of another promise for tomorrow.

Our long-term vision remains a larger clinic within the Metchosin School, with four Nurse Practitioners and specialist-supported services. We are not giving up on that vision.

But we couldn’t keep asking a community to wait while we worked toward it.

Thanks to the generosity of Shaddy, the owner of Metchosin Pharmacy, we found a space to begin.

And thanks to the incredible people who turned their concern into advocacy, fundraising, and action, we found a way to open.

To MACCA, the Metchosin Seniors Resource Centre, Mike Pretty, our generous private Metchosin donor, East Sooke Therapy Group, Beecher Bay, Dan Spinner, Jennifer Burgis, Marilyn Cudmore, the Metchosin Fire Department, Mayor Marie-Térèse and the many community members who have stood behind this project: you helped turn a community’s fear of losing access to healthcare into something hopeful and tangible.

We also want to recognize our extraordinary team at Colwood Family Practice, our very first clinic. Without their willingness to take on the additional work of administratively supporting Metchosin as a satellite clinic, this opening would not have been possible. Their commitment to caring for people beyond their own clinic walls is what makes our organization special.

This clinic is not the finish line.

We still have funding to secure, a larger space to build, and more healthcare capacity to bring to Metchosin.

But this week, patients were able to access healthcare in their own community.

And that matters.

Because one exam room is better than no exam room. Because progress doesn’t have to wait for perfection. And because healthcare can’t wait.

Metchosin, we’re here. And we’re just getting started.

To learn how to access care at Metchosin Medical Clinic, visit:

www.sipcs.ca/metchosinmedical

10/09/2026

[Part1] Metchosin, you needed healthcare close to home.

For rural communities, the absence of local healthcare means more than a longer drive. It means seniors struggling to access appointments, families delaying care, and residents worrying about what will happen when someone they love needs medical attention.

The story of Metchosin Medical Clinic began with the advocacy of a community member and Nurse Practitioner Jill Cowlrick, your Medical Director and your Nurse Practitioner. What started as a conversation quickly became a community movement.

Every Tuesday at the Broken Paddle, we listened. At teas with the Mayor, community forums, and conversations with the Seniors Resource Centre, we heard the same message: Metchosin needed healthcare, and people were scared of what it meant to live in a community without it.

You weren’t just advocating for yourselves. You were advocating for your parents, your neighbours, your children, and the people you love.

And we heard you.

At the South Island Primary Care Society, expanding access to primary care is our mandate. It’s why we exist.

But bringing healthcare to Metchosin has not been easy. Countless hours have gone into funding applications, meetings, planning, and advocacy. We have faced barriers to securing the resources needed to build the clinic this community deserves.

Yet barriers have never been where our work ends. Finding a way through them is how we’ve continued to create opportunities for healthcare across the South Island.

And this week, we found a way forward.

Not the entire vision. Not the clinic we ultimately hope to build.

But a beginning.

Because Metchosin, you have waited long enough.

10/07/2026

Don't have a Family Doctor? 4 of our South Island Primary Care Society clinics provide access to urgent and episodic care to ensure everyone has access to healthcare when they need it.

As the weather gets colder and cold and flu season begins, save this post so you know where you can look for care when you need it.

📍 Colwood Family Practice
Colwoodfamilypractice.com

📍 Goldstream Medical Clinic
Goldstreammedicalclinic.ca

📍 West Saanich Medical Clinic
Westsaanichmedical.com

📍 NEW — Metchosin Medical Clinic | Phase 1
sipcs.ca/metchosinmedical

⚠️ Please note: Each clinic has different hours, availability and booking criteria. Before attending, please visit the clinic’s website and follow its specific booking process.

10/06/2026

$225,000 FOR MORE DOCTORS.

This year, we attended the Westshore Charity Golf Tournament for the third time. But for the tournament, this year marked something much bigger: 30 years of giving back to our community. Over those three decades, countless local charities, organizations and community projects have benefited from the tournament's generosity.

For the South Island Primary Care Society, though, the Westshore Charity Golf Tournament holds a particularly important place in our story. Just two and a half years ago, our organization was brand new. We had an audacious vision: to make a bold and measurable impact on the primary care crisis on South Vancouver Island. We had started our first practice at Colwood Family Practice. We had a small group of doctors who believed in what we were trying to build. And we had an enormous amount of work ahead of us. We knew we could recruit physicians to our community. We knew that with the right infrastructure, recruitment support and community investment, we could create new primary care capacity. But at that point, we didn't have years of results to show. We didn't have a long track record. We didn't have proof of concept yet. And as a new organization asking the community to invest in an ambitious idea, finding those first donors was incredibly difficult.

Then our Executive Director sat down for coffee with Stew Young. The conversation was simple: our community needed more family doctors, and we believed we could help bring them here. Stew quickly said yes. That coffee got our organization across the starting line. That year, the tournament helped fund our first 10 doctors. Those weren't just 10 recruitment files or 10 names on a list. They represented thousands of people gaining access to primary care. They gave our organization the opportunity to prove that this model could work. And they helped turn an ambitious idea into something tangible.

Since then, we have grown, opened and supported clinics with massive partners, recruited physicians nationally and internationally, and helped connect thousands more people with primary care. But our work isn't finished. This year, we returned to the Westshore Charity Golf Tournament with that message: We have made significant progress — but our community still needs more doctors. And once again, they answered the call. At the 30th Annual Westshore Charity Golf Tournament, an incredible $220,000 was raised for the South Island Primary Care Society to continue bringing more doctors and more primary care capacity to our communities.

To the organizers, sponsors, golfers, volunteers, businesses and donors who made this year's tournament possible: thank you.

You didn't simply raise $225,000.

You invested in more doctors.
You invested in more access to care.
And you invested in a healthier future for our community.

We will never forget who believed in this work at the beginning — and we are incredibly grateful that, three years later, you are still standing beside us.

$220,000 for more doctors.

Now, we get back to work.