The primary care strategy, Primary Care: A New Direction, contains the template for the development of primary care in Ireland in the coming decade. Its key objective is to move from the current fragmented system of delivering primary care to one where services are provided by integrated, multidisciplinary teams. The primary care team will include general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, social workers, home helps and health care assistants. As the new model is developed, wider networks of other primary care professionals will also provide services to the populations served by the primary care teams.