The differing cognitive frameworks and life experiences of GPs have brought varied approaches to problem solving and patient engagement into the profession.

General practice represents the synergy between mechanistic and humanistic cognitive paradigms – promoting the best of science and technology, while placing the patient and their welfare centrally.

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.

A review of the challenges that frame the problems affecting general practice.

A suggested model for general practice that allows the full scope of practice to be developed while supporting general practitioners in their careers.

This study supports the prospect of expanding rural general practitioner endoscopy services to meet increasing demands in a safe, effective manner.

Strategies that have successfully increased COVID-19 vaccine uptake may also be effective in enhancing uptake across a range of vaccine-preventable diseases.

These interventions play a part in substance use disorder treatment and relapse prevention as well as improving physical and mental health and quality of life.

A project piloting an embedded general practice pharmacist provided an opportunity to explore the influence of this role on medication management for a target ‘at-risk’ population.

This article uses lived experience to outline some of the crucial trigger points where support from the general practitioner can have a significant impact on a positive path forward for the patient.

Random case analysis in practice clinical team meetings is a novel method of peer review of performance that also promotes quality improvement and can identify patient safety concerns.

Effort needs to be made to most effectively combine expert cancer care with holistic, whole-person care, across the cancer continuum.

This issue describes aspects of modern cancer treatment and underscores the importance of general practitioners to achieve optimal whole-person care.

This framework meets the need for a simple framework for practice-based case discussion that applies to both the formal problem case discussion and informal ad hoc teaching scenarios.

The identification of hidden illnesses that present with vague symptoms remains an ongoing challenge for all clinicians.