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.

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.

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.

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.

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.