Access to primary care can be affected by a person's social and environmental situation. Articles in this month’s edition discuss barriers to access and innovative solutions for improving access.

We are more than the sum of our body parts. Our dignity and equality have practical implications for narrative, patient outcomes and influence in general practice.

Oral and dental health, as well as dental services, are important to our patients and need to be better integrated into our own thinking and practice.

Hepatitis C virus treatment is an effective illustration of the significant benefits of robust general practice delivering positive health outcomes to patients who were previously excluded.

American Born Chinese will prompt discussions on identities, family and friendship.

Patients can be empowered through understanding chronic kidney disease as not confined to a single organ system but as the antecedent and consequence of several pathophysiological processes.

The host immune system appears to have a fundamental role in almost all human disease.

The idea of dialogic truth may be a concept that can help all parties move closer to thinking creatively together.

The idea of dialogic truth may be a concept that can help all parties move closer to thinking creatively together.

Oral and dental health, as well as dental services, are important to general practice patients and need to be better integrated into general practitioners' thinking and practice.

Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic disease in Australia, with 1.2 million people known to have type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes.

It may be worthwhile for all clinicians to explore the conceptual frameworks that describe access to healthcare.

If a medical practitioner is to care for the whole person across their lifespan, they must have expertise in patient care across organ systems, treatment modalities and demographics.

The Focus articles in this issue explore various aspects of chronic kidney disease, as well as cystitis symptoms in women.

The Focus articles in this issue provide updates on fatty liver disease and the treatment of hepatitis C virus in general practice, and information on communicating with patients about medications.

The rewards, frustrations and challenges of presentations of the upper limb are a microcosm of broader tensions in the healthcare system.

General practice is well placed to help design, deliver and evaluate collaborative partnerships with the legal profession.

The Focus articles featured in this issue highlight medico-legal concerns that may be encountered in general practice.

This month’s issue spotlights a common movement disorder in general practice – Parkinson’s disease – in addition to discussing assessment of gait and the importance of posture.

Challenges that multiple sclerosis presents include early detection, awareness of new therapies, work with multidisciplinary teams and its long-term management as a chronic disease.

Parkinson’s disease is now recognised as a whole-body disorder, not a motor disorder with accompanying non-motor features.

The host immune system appears to have a fundamental role in almost all human disease.

New insights into our understanding of skin morphology, treatment and cultural contexts equip GPs to manage various skin diseases as they might present in all the individuals they serve.

Holistic primary care extends not just across an individual’s lifespan but also to people of all cultures, genders, orientations, beliefs and socio-economic position.

Australian primary healthcare has been transitioning from episodic to continuous care of patients with diabetes.

Challenges that multiple sclerosis presents include early detection, awareness of new therapies, work with multidisciplinary teams and its long-term management as a chronic disease.

The rewards, frustrations and challenges of presentations of the upper limb are a microcosm of broader tensions in the healthcare system.