The Primary Health Care Research & Information Service (PHCRIS) is a national primary health care organisation based at Flinders University in South Australia in the Discipline of General Practice. PHCRIS and its website is funded by the Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. The PHCRIS website provides a gateway to general practice and primary health care research resources for practitioners, researchers, policy makers, primary health care organisations and consumers. First established in 1995 as the National Information Service (NIS) the Primary Health Care Research and Information Service (PHCRIS) changed its name in 2001 to better represent the work they do.