Skin cancer medicine is a core component of Australian general practice and is consistently in the top 10 conditions managed.

Skin cancer medicine is a core component of Australian general practice. The Focus articles featured in this issue discuss the management of pigmented skin lesions in general practice.

Regular contraceptive review should take account of the fact that women’s reasons for use may shift between contraceptive and non-contraceptive purposes.

Practice managers are well placed to model and teach professional behaviour, and their skills should be further used in educating general practice registrars.

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

An investigative study into whether using the Modified Centor Criteria reduces antibiotic prescribing in a general practice setting.

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

Reaching blood pressure targets in patients with chronic kidney disease is a challenge, but can be more easily achieved with greater continuity of care.

An updated overview of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, including epidemiology, risk factors for infection, spectrum of clinical disease, diagnosis and management.

This clinical challenge is based on this month’s Focus articles. To complete this activity, go to gplearning and log in with the username and password you use to log in to the RACGP website.

This paper addresses concordance between glycated haemoglobin and fasting plasma glucose as the two most widely used diagnostic tests for type 2 diabetes.

Insulin pumps, continuous and flash glucose monitoring and new insulins are changing the treatment landscape for people with type 1 diabetes mellitus.

Hyperosmolar hyperglycaemic state is a potentially life-threatening metabolic derangement seen in type 2 diabetes, with early recognition and treatment essential to achieving a good outcome.

Australian primary healthcare has been transitioning from episodic to continuous care of patients with diabetes.

Diabetes is the fastest growing chronic disease in Australia, with 1.2 million people known to have type 1, type 2 or gestational diabetes.