General practitioners can facilitate recovery-orientated, trauma-focused care, even when local services are limited.

This issue equips GPs to recognise, assess and respond to intimate partner violence and coercive control using evidence-based approaches to support patient safety and care.

This Focus edition of AJGP overviews evidence-based pragmatic guidance on how GPs can identify and respond to a person who might be experiencing or using intimate partner violence.

This article explores the challenges of identifying family members affected by intimate partner violence in primary care.