AJGP pays tribute to Emeritus Professor John Murtagh AO

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 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.

Doctors’ health and wellbeing – making this key topic a priority for the benefit of all.

Here at the AJGP, we are publishing multiple papers that explore and deal with this profoundly important topic, here in this theme issue and also as an ongoing series.

Health of the Nation has been a great contribution for advocacy and leadership for the profession. It also highlights the importance of health and wellbeing for both patients and colleagues.

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.

Australians travel a lot and rely on GPs to provide advice and care before and after travel. A framework to support GPs to provide safe and effective care is important.

Australians travel a lot and rely on GPs to provide advice and care before and after travel. A framework to support GPs to provide safe and effective care is important.

Fundamentally, research is simply curiosity, linked to a desire to know more about a topic. Research underpins all that we know and do in general practice

Fundamentally, research is simply curiosity, linked to a desire to know more about a topic. Research underpins all that we know and do in general practice

General practitioners contribute significantly to the palliative care of patients. Our knowledge, skills and compassion have an understated impact upon individuals at the close of their life.

Introducing a longitudinal series of summaries of individual publications reporting findings from the Registrar Clinical Encounters in Training (ReCEnT) project.

The RACGP National workforce strategy focuses on growing the GP workforce, future-proofing the profession, supporting cultural safety and positioning general practice at the healthcare system’s core.

General practitioners contribute significantly to the palliative care of patients. Our knowledge, skills and compassion have an understated impact upon individuals at the close of their life.