As COVID-19 affects healthcare and social care systems around the world, reports of infection among healthcare and social care workers continue to accumulate.

The paper provides key strategies guiding practices to optimise implementing social work student placements.

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 good diagnosis provides a valid interpretation of a person’s experience and is respectful and empowering.

Lifestyle medicine might offer an adjunct approach to better managing chronic disease.

This study examines whether SMS reminders may be a useful tool in the spectrum of care needed for optimal asthma management in general practice.

This paper reviews the literature from the social sciences concerning the social, cultural, political, and economic implications of evidence-based medicine.

Quarantine has been associated with increased rates of suicide, anger, acute stress disorder, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder, with symptoms continuing even years after quarantine.

This article provides a UK-based general practitioner’s perspective on shifting to a multidisciplinary model in primary care

Because death is one of life’s only certainties, as ‘specialists in life’ it is imperative for GPs to appreciate the multifaceted nature of death.

The postnatal visit is crucial for effective healthcare education, preventive medicine and treatment, and it occurs at a time of major life transition and increased need.

The inclusion of the lived experience of patients and carers as an integral component of clinical care provides an essential perspective.

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.

Barriers to general practice involvement in advance care planning and strategies for incorporating it into patient care are discussed.

This paper synthesises evidence-based frameworks of palliative care with other resources to guide GPs in the systematic delivery of high-quality, home-base palliative care.