The South Link Education Trust was established in 2003 to assist General Practices within the South Island for the purposes of:

1. Supporting community-based health care initiatives where secondary care services are being devolved to a community level.
2. Supporting education regarding disease prevention and promoting efficiency and effectiveness of community-based health service providers and their communities.
3. Furthering the education and training of general medical practitioners in the South Island.
4. Furthering the development of comprehensive and integrated primary care services for those communities.
5. Education of health administrators, legislators and others responsible for making decisions regarding primary health care that impact on those communities.
6. Promotion of education about primary health care and primary health care providers generally.
7. Assisting movements, groups, charitable trusts and other organisations which exist to promote or are endeavouring to promote any of the above purposes.