This case highlights the prevalence and potential consequences of elevated blood pressure in children and adolescents, as well as options for managing hypertension in the paediatric population.

Clinic managers are encouraged to review their follow-up and electronic reminder systems, as these are associated with benefits for clients who require secondary prophylaxis for acute rheumatic fever.

General practitioners believe that principles underlying Medical Homes may support whole-person care, but aspects of the current Health Care Homes trial could impede this whole-person approach.

As cancer shifts towards a chronic disease care model, general practitioners remain essential to the patient journey from first suspicion to survivorship.

Provides a guide for long-term follow-up and surveillance for survivors of head and neck cancer, who are increasing in number as cancer therapies improve.

Pancreatic cancer has the highest mortality rate among all main cancer types and is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in Australia.

Primary care doctors may be asked about palliative sedation for a patient and can provide support to family members of patients who undergo palliative sedation.

This model of care recommends a systemic, coordinated, multidisciplinary approach to survivorship, using pathways of care that support wellness, disease prevention and cancer surveillance.

Early detection of cancer requires us to maintain both knowledge of insidious warning signs and vigilance in seeking these out.

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A man aged 19 years presented to a general practitioner with a one-day history of urinary frequency.

A woman aged 40 years presented to her general practitioner with a changing plaque on her left breast, which was subsequently diagnosed as morphoea with the assistance of teledermatology.

The Deep End GPs of the Canberra Region is a grassroots organisation of general practitioners who work with at-risk people in Canberra and the surrounding region.

A case report of the systematic evaluation and management of a patient with cold agglutinin and haemolytic anaemia following an episode of shingles.

An awareness of disseminated superficial actinic porokeratosis as a precancerous skin condition is an important component of any Australian general practitioner’s basic skin knowledge.