A stepwise approach to a patient with renal tract pain can aid immensely in formulating an accurate diagnosis and providing optimal care.

Medication cessation or dose reduction may be required for patients with chronic kidney disease to prevent medication accumulation, adverse medication events and kidney injury.

This paper provides an overview of exercise care in general practice to support sustained solutions for patients living with chronic disease.

This paper describes the overall number of prescriptions and unique medicines dispensed and costs borne by a cohort of patients treated with lipid-lowering therapy.

Asthma presentations are common in general practice, but opportunities to control asthma are often missed.

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.

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.

Chronic non-cancer pain management illustrates the case for reconceptualising chronic condition management using a generic lifestyle-based approach.

The aim of this article is to update GPs on how to screen patients for eating disorders across the entire weight spectrum and to diagnose, treat and monitor patients with binge eating disorder.

Cognitive impairment is common in multiple sclerosis and can have an impact on all aspects of daily life.

Cognitive rehabilitation is person-centred, with interventions chosen in collaboration with the person, based on biopsychosocial case formulation, and with the aim of meeting the person’s goals.

Shared medical appointments and programmed shared medical appointments are an innovative approach to chronic disease management.

Communication difficulties are frequently disregarded until they have a significant impact on quality of life, while the person may be unaware of indicators of dysphagia.

This paper considers common mechanisms underpinning chronic conditions and how these mechanisms might be targeted therapeutically in primary care.

Continued support by public health nurses may lead to a comprehensive reduction in the risk of lifestyle diseases.