This article reviews the difficulties of driving assessment, including what measures there are to guide GPs, and proposes a practical approach to this issue for general practice.

To reduce diagnostic delay for women with endometriosis-related symptoms, we need to understand GPs’ perspectives on the challenges they face in diagnosing and managing endometriosis.

Understanding the sophisticated craft and practical skills of generalist care could help both GPs and health policy makers value, respect and navigate the challenges of this complex important work.

This study provides insights into the management of heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) prior to the release of the HMB clinical care standard.

Evidence supports some beneficial effects of antibiotics prescribed to patients with a sore throat and proven presence of group A streptococci.

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

Skin lesions may provide a clue to diagnosis in a patient with persistent fever and history of recent travel.

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

Medical abortion is a more accessible and less invasive option than surgical termination and can be provided in primary care settings.

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

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

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.

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

Despite recent exponential growth in research on familial hypercholesterolaemia, there remains a general lack of public and health professional awareness about the disorder.

Although myeloproliferative neoplasms are rare illnesses, the general practitioner is well placed to identify suspicious features and initiate investigations and referral.