Late-stage Parkinson’s disease is a syndrome of frequent falls, cognitive impairment, visual hallucinations and need for residential care.

Care in the 21st century demands better outcomes through more comprehensive data to enhance the provider’s ability to deliver care and increase the patient’s involvement in their own healthcare.

Focuses on the behaviours and needs of infants whose mothers have BPD, including knowledge and skills for primary care practitioners to help these troubled families.

For those families for whom breastfeeding is difficult or contraindicated, advice on expressing and supplementing can aid parents to achieve their breastfeeding goals.

Knowledge of the specific dermatoses of pregnancy will assist in diagnosis, management and, importantly, facilitation of timely escalation of care of conditions that can potentially affect the fetus.

Patients with advanced age, significant comorbidities and poor functional status may not gain a survival benefit with dialysis when compared with being managed conservatively.

Collective efforts worldwide have focused on the identification of people at highest risk of poor outcomes if they contract COVID-19.

Maternal immunisation is playing an increasingly important part in improving maternal and neonatal health.

Diagnosis and effective management of gestational diabetes improve maternal and fetal outcomes, although controversies exist regarding diagnosis, treatment and long-term follow-up.

In the primary care setting, an understanding of stomas and their complications is important in providing appropriate care for these patients.

Discusses the role of GPs in identifying patients who may be at risk of or are experiencing elder abuse.

This study investigates the effectiveness of two interventions to prevent surgical site infection after below-knee surgery.

This article considers the relationships between the dose and volume of the local anaesthetic lignocaine and wound complications in skin cancer excisions.

This article discusses an approach to managing patients with significant solar damage from a primary care perspective, focusing on the assessment and treatment of actinic keratoses.

There is a need to support men to make informed decisions about prostate-specific antigen testing using appropriate information resources and decision aids.