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Some BC residents wait five years to get connected with a doctor, here’s how politicians plan to change that
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But by the government’s own estimates, over a million BC residents are still without access to primary care — a 45% increase since the BC NDP took power.
The data shows the number of patients on the HCR waitlist from July 2023 to July 2025, the number of patients referred to primary care providers from April 2024 to July 2025, and the average and maximum (95th percentile) time that patients spend on the waitlist.
Wait times vary across the province Based on this data, the average time a BC resident spends on the Health Connect Registry is 407 days, but some areas have maximum wait times that far exceed that.
In fact, according to this dataset, the shortest wait times in the province — an average and maximum wait time of just 26 days — are in Bella Bella, a community of less than 1200 people (according to the 2021 census) in the central coast region of BC.
The second shortest wait times — an average of 151 days and a maximum of 397 days — are in qathet, a region on BC’s south coast that includes the city of Powell River.
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