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.

Healthcare professionals would generally like to increase their electronic correspondence, yet most are currently faxing or posting their correspondence.

It is estimated that 600,000 Australians currently self-medicate with cannabis, with chronic pain a leading indication for such use.

Health coaching is an integral part of lifestyle medicine that can be used to facilitate behaviour change in key lifestyle areas.

Complex spinal pain interdisciplinary assessment in a primary care setting shows reasonable long-term outcomes comparable to more intensive interventions.

It is important for prescribers to regularly ask patients about their medication adherence and to discuss strategies for promoting this.

Street-based general practice services are critical to facilitate easy access to primary and secondary management of chronic multimorbid conditions in marginalised patients.

Living with haemochromatosis is an individual journey that requires consistent, medically supported self-management guided by a positive attitude and awareness of the condition.

A man aged 60 years presented with an irregularly shaped erythematous scalp plaque with a 5 cm diameter.

Interconception care is becoming increasingly important, with rising rates of overweight, obesity, diabetes and hypertension among people of reproductive age.

There is a need to enhance aged care exposure for general practice registrars in ways that build on the competence of registrars and the trust in registrars by older patients and supervisors.

Involving patients in the clinical decision-making process is integral to providing individualised care and is promoted as a hallmark of good clinical practice.

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