Recent data have shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection is a specific risk factor for a subsequent cardiovascular event, including death.

It is essential to involve primary healthcare professionals as stakeholders in the development of research questions and study design to ensure relevance and feasibility.

The potential benefits and risks of bariatric surgery with respect to maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in future pregnancies need to be carefully considered on an individual basis.

Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring is the reference standard for diagnosing blood pressure abnormalities and should be used when possible.

Non-fasting lipid testing is now recommended throughout the world.

Recent technology-related changes in the practice of medicine will have a profound effect on both the provision and measurement of continuity.

Primary care physicians play a key part in the treatment and prevention of fracture and thereby save lives by assessing and managing high-risk individuals.

To curb unnecessary and prolonged prescribing of antidepressants, we need to support general practitioners to initiate antidepressants less often and to review and stop antidepressants more often.

Reconciling the evidence regarding posture with a patient’s individual context is important to optimally manage presenting patients.

Personality disorder traits should receive particular attention as they point to greater suicide risks.

It is important to ensure that planning and funding for effective implementation and evaluation of the guidelines is undertaken in parallel with the guideline development process.

It is necessary to be up to date with knowledge and language about autism, as society’s understanding of autism is continuingly being refined and informed by the Autistic community.

The telehealth consult can be as clinically satisfying as the traditional face-to-face primary care consult.

The recent increased public experience with epidemiological concepts such as contact tracing offers new potential to improve detection and management of familial hypercholesterolaemia.

Some recent advances affect the practice of general orthopaedics, while others may be more specific to subspecialty practice, such as refinements of surgical techniques.