Clinical Snippets June 2026

Dr Dave this month covers the Sustaining GP Wellbeing toolkit for local GPs in Canterbury, the importance and process of adverse reaction reporting via BPAC, a safety alert about genetic susceptibility to general anaesthetics in patients of Venezuelan maternal origin, permanent changes to Cremation Regulations for deaths in long-term residential or specialist palliative care, new ACC Return to Work Guidelines for elective orthopaedic surgery, the Groov mental wellbeing app, Australian deprescribing guidelines for older people, the updated SPUMS handbook for recreational diving medical assessments, and recent research on gluteus maximus shape predicting type 2 diabetes risk and the gut microbiome’s role in auto-brewery syndrome