Abstract
The last concept of the branch of General Practice was published in the Czech Republic in the year 2009. Since that time, many changes have occurred, including legal regulations, which affect work of general practitioners.
Presentation of the Director-General of WHO Margaret Chan MD at the World Conference of General Practitioners/Family Physicians WONCA in Prague, 2013 was another cue for the regulations amendment, in which the role and future of this branch were further defined. General Practice is a basic therapeutic and preventive branch and WHO considers it the "backbone" of medicine and health care systems.
General Practice is open to all problems that are related to health considering social-economic factors and environment in which people live and work. It is closest to the patients within the meaning of local, temporal, economic and cultural availability.
The main goal of the branch of General Practice is to ensure medical care for citizens in accordance with current scientific knowledge, which is provided properly according to the cultural maturity of the society. This medical care shall be carried out by its own force at the level of primary care or through the effective use of specialized services of secondary and tertiary care.
The proposed concept of the branch in the Czech Republic is in compliance with this goal.