Application of specific biopsychosocial models supports general practitioners to advance best practice in disability care by meeting the complex care needs of their clients.

Mastering of the art of consultation is considered to be at the heart of general practice training and is vital in doctor–patient relationships.

The future of telehealth in primary care requires its coherent integration into clinical infrastructure and bolstering of community access and capacity to use both video and telephone modalities.

Establishing a culturally safe assessment of cultural safety, determined by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, should be prioritised as an essential component of registrar assessment.

AJGP would like to thank all our 2021 reviewers for their generous contribution to the journal.

Education in oral health literacy is key, and timely referral to dental practitioners may provide better patient outcomes with fewer potentially preventable hospitalisations.

Random case analysis in practice clinical team meetings is a novel method of peer review of performance that also promotes quality improvement and can identify patient safety concerns.

The absence of national safety and quality metrics hampers standardised approaches to evaluating telehealth implementation in Australia.

Recent consensus advice on the care of patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH) supports improved care of patients with FH in the primary care setting.

This framework meets the need for a simple framework for practice-based case discussion that applies to both the formal problem case discussion and informal ad hoc teaching scenarios.

Australia’s new national health priority of Quality Use of Medicine and Medicine Safety should stimulate all stakeholders including consumers to work together to address off-label medicine use.

The enhanced Residential Medication Management Review program will address barriers and support general practitioners to make medication changes for older Australians.

AJGP would like to thank all our 2020 reviewers for their generous contribution to the journal.

The two professions have evolved with different social drivers and scientific underpinnings, with only a recent appreciation of the connections between the health of the mouth and the body.

Technology is increasingly encroaching into the doctor–patient consultation space, moving beyond the relatively straightforward applications in medical records.