General practitioners are well positioned to take a comprehensive approach to the management of functional decline in older people, aided by a range of funded programs.

Australia’s outdated definition of obesity likely hinders management and contributes to the observed gap between clinical guidelines and current practice.

This article explores the themes of patient choice, safety and optimising success in GP-led withdrawal. The four-step framework outlines how to best support patients to undertake a withdrawal.

The aim of this paper is to enhance general practitioner awareness of problem gambling, its impact, general practice presentations, screening, effective treatment and referral options.

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

This research explores the feasibility, acceptability and effectiveness of remote external clinical teaching visits.

Previous research identified numerous barriers to GP use of cardiovascular disease risk guidelines. This study explored recent GP experiences.

Although not all women undergoing mastectomy will desire or choose breast reconstruction, it is important that all women have the opportunity to make an informed choice.

This paper aims to identify transferable lessons from the implementation of diabetic retinopathy screening that could be applied to rheumatic heart disease echocardiographic detection.

The primary care physician has an essential role in providing women with guidance, counselling and assessment regarding fertility concerns.

Young people experience higher rates of sexually transmissible infections and lower screening rates than the general population in Australia.

An awareness of disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis as a precancerous skin condition is an important component of any Australian general practitioner’s basic skin knowledge.

An updated overview of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, including epidemiology, risk factors for infection, spectrum of clinical disease, diagnosis and management.

Prescribing drugs to reduce the risk of cancer is a new development in primary cancer prevention.

Botulinum neurotoxin is an effective treatment for various movement disorders that are disabling and frequently under-recognised.