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General practitioners continue to provide most of the medical care to people with type 2 diabetes. The complexity of care for this common disease requires systematic care from the practice team and the timely referral to community and hospital based specialists.

The current guide, in its fifteenth edition, has an important role in providing a readable summary of current guidelines and recommendations from various sources on the management of type 2 diabetes in the general practice setting.

Importantly, this edition again includes specific issues relating to treating diabetes in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population which reflects the burden of this disease within this group. Also included is a routine care checklist for practice nurses for use under the clinical oversight of the general practitioner.

Dr Gary Deed President Diabetes Australia

Dr Chris Mitchell President Royal Australian College of General Practitioners