The research evaluated an introductory‑level training program to improve the readiness of regional Victorian general practices to identify and support victim-survivors of family and domestic violence.

Exposure to domestic and family violence has lifelong impacts on physical health and life expectancy and increases hospitalisation and healthcare usage.

Strangulation has potential significant sequelae such as carotid dissection, hypoxic brain injury and laryngeal injury.

There are key gaps in general practitioners’ knowledge and confidence about identifying and responding to men’s use of violence in relationships.

The lived experience of caregiving and the burden associated with this role indicates that caregivers are in need of support, yet there are several barriers to integration with the healthcare team.

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.

The initial assessment and response to a disclosure of sexual assault is an important opportunity to address medical, safety and psychosocial concerns.

Adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes can be ameliorated through antenatal and postnatal care that attends to the special needs of this group.

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.

Exploring our lives, as GPs, outside the clinic.

LactaMap aims to support general practitioners caring for women and infants requiring lactation support by delivering evidence-based lactation information in an accessible format at the point of care.

While clinical guidelines recommend increasing the use of long-acting reversible contraceptives, current contraceptive use and management in Australia do not reflect these recommendations.

Better defining, integrating and supporting general practitioner roles in disaster systems is likely to improve disaster healthcare.