Background: The Department of Health and Aging is driving a reform of general practice to encompass primary care and population health. Although these new ideas are quite old they have rarely been comprehensively applied.
Objective: To develop an up-to-date conceptual framework of the comprehensive tasks of general practice.
Discussion: This framework can help the 'new kind of general practitioner' (and those in training) in deciding which elements of the 'new primary health care' they can, or will, encompass.