Urgent and Primary Care Centres (UPCCs)
UPCC – 2022-23, Budget and Expenditures
Response letter to FOI request
UPCC, CHC, FNPCC, NPPCC Data
P13 Data form HealthAuthority end of year financial submissions, showing 2022-23 YTD actuals up to March 31 2023
UPCC Dowtown budgeted $371,429 for Nurse Practitioners, spent $0
UPCC Esquimalt budgeted $2.1 Million for Family Physician, $0 spent. Budgeted $137,000 for Nurse Practioners and $0 spent.
Within Island Health several UPCCs over spending in OVERHEAD, ranging from $500,000-$900,000 more than budgeted.
UPCC – Patient attachments since 2017, up to March 2022
19,500 Attachments total across the ENTIRE province since 2017
UPCC – Positions filled and positions vacant, between Feb 4-March 3 2022
“In the North Shore Primary Care Network, there are supposed to be 17.5 full-time equivalent physicians — there are just three.
In South Okanagan Similkameen’s Primary Care Network, there are seven nurse practitioners, but zero doctors out of the 6.4 approved full-time equivalent physicians.
In the White Rock and South Surrey Primary Care Network, there are only 33 per cent of the doctors there are supposed to be.”