Respiratory tract and sleep disorders – including obstructive sleep apnoea, difficult-to-treat asthma in adults, and insomnia – are commonly encountered in general practice.

It is important that a high level of clinical suspicion is maintained when paediatric patients present with a vague history or symptoms that may represent airway foreign bodies.

The connection between sleep and health has been recognised for centuries, but it is only relatively recently that the treatment of sleep disorders has developed as a medical specialty.

Gender difference exists in general practice trainees’ frequency of performing procedures related to women’s reproductive health.

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

Modest proportions of general practice registrars have training in, and in-practice experience of, long-acting reversible contraception insertion.

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

Patients and physicians need to be aware of the important implications that medical cannabis use may have for driving.

It is unlikely that medicinal cannabis will be used as a first-line agent for the management of pain, nausea and other specific symptoms, but it may have a complementary role within palliative care.

Early identification of all skin cancers enables improved patient outcomes and results in a wider range of treatment options being available locally in general practice.

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

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

Skin cancer follow-up is most effective when general practitioners establish follow-up strategies suited to the rural populations and supported by evidence-based guidelines for skins cancers.

Medicare Benefits Schedule rules regarding sleep study eligibility have recently changed and incorporate validated questionnaires of obstructive sleep apnoea risk and subjective sleepiness.

Diagnosis of insomnia is facilitated by the use of self-report measures to characterise the sleep disorder and elucidate comorbidities.