Patients prescribed high doses of opioids need to be managed appropriately to reduce risks of morbidity and mortality.

The study aim was to understand Victorian providers’ needs and perspectives about implementing young people’s health assessments.

Programmed shared medical appointments are effective, well accepted and cost efficient for body weight management.

This study showed that an SMS recall system for Heart Health Checks can be effective and acceptable in general practice.

This article outlines the evolving integration of GPs into disaster health management (DHM) in Australia and discusses key DHM concepts and systems.

This paper explores the challenges faced by pregnant women, new mothers, infants and young children during and after the 2019–20 Black Summer bushfires.

This article reviews the evidence on disaster health effects from an all-hazards perspective and highlight GPs’ essential role in disaster healthcare.

Consults involving obesity and weight management can be complex, often requiring a biopsychosocial approach and consideration of the stigma from both the general population and within healthcare.

Disaster can take many forms in general practice, ranging from in-house challenges such as IT security, through to full-blown external events on a local or global scale. Here, we consider several.

This issue aims to give a voice and to provide acknowledgement to GPs and GP researchers with knowledge and experience in disaster health management through dissemination of their insights and wisdom.

General practice and GPs are a valuable resource in disasters, but they also need support to be as effective and as safe as possible.

This article discusses the options available for the surgical management of male infertility in cases where a male factor may be found as a contributing cause in infertile couples.

This guideline fills a gap in the existing general practice literature relating to suicide.

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

The symptom burden and care needs for patients with end-stage, non-malignant illnesses are similar to those of patients with advanced cancer.