The role of the division is to promote general practice as the key to optimal health care, and to improve the quality of care GPs provide to their patients, the quality of their professional lives and the quality of their personal and family lives as GPs. There are 123 divisions of general practice Australia-wide, with almost half in rural areas.
Divisions are formal organisations of GPs within a geographical area.
They provide a framework for GPs to interact with the health services, community groups and public. Divisions are primarily funded under the Commonwealth Health and Family Services, Divisions of General Practice Program. Funding also comes from NSW Health and the private sector. More than 170 GPs are members. If we live in a man's world, it is not a world that has been built upon the needs and nourishment of men.