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

This article reviews evidence for RASI therapy in patients with advanced CKD, with the aim of enhancing GPs’ awareness to the cardiovascular and renoprotective benefits.

Patient-centred practice is needed to build a treatment plan that works for individual patients.

This study shows the importance of sharing and learning from policy differences.

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

This article describes the pathophysiology of pelvic congestion syndrome and outlines the symptomatology, the most efficient diagnostic pathway and the optimal treatment methods.

Refugee women exhibit some of the highest rates of chronic pain, but the relationship between chronic pain and refugee-related challenges arising from migration trajectories remains unclear.

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.

The effects of acute kidney injury extend beyond the acute illness phase.

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

Lifestyle medicine might offer an adjunct approach to better managing chronic disease.

Reaching blood pressure targets in patients with chronic kidney disease is a challenge, but can be more easily achieved with greater continuity of care.

An update on the various treatment methods available today to tackle pilonidal disease.

Despite being aware of the risks of diabetes in pregnancy, less than half of women with diabetes had sought preconception care, and many had poor knowledge of the most reliable contraceptive methods.

Factors to be considered when assessing the burden of treatment and a patient’s capacity to cope with this workload are outlined.