This article reviews the evidence on disaster health effects from an all-hazards perspective and highlight GPs’ essential role in disaster healthcare.

Disaster can take many forms in general practice, ranging from in-house challenges such as IT security, through to full-blown external events on a local or global scale. Here, we consider several.

This article provides a concise introduction to disaster planning for those who are new to Australian general practice or to general practice ownership.

This article outlines GPs’ legal and professional requirements for engaging in first conversations about VAD with patients.

Better defining, integrating and supporting general practitioner roles in disaster systems is likely to improve disaster healthcare.

This issue aims to give a voice and to provide acknowledgement to GPs and GP researchers with knowledge and experience in disaster health management through dissemination of their insights and wisdom.

This article outlines the evolving integration of GPs into disaster health management (DHM) in Australia and discusses key DHM concepts and systems.

Whether or not we have patients requesting VAD at the end of life, the GP role remains the same: to listen, to support, to maintain trust and to assist in making the end of life the best it can be.