This book provides a summary of results from the 17th year of the BEACH program, a continuous national study of general practice activity in Australia. From April 2014 to March 2015, 995 general practitioners recorded details of 99,500 GP-patient encounters, at which patients presented 151,636 reasons for encounter and 153,133 problems were managed. For an 'average' 100 problems managed, GPs recorded: 66 medications (including 55 prescribed, 5 supplied to the patient and 6 advised for over-the-counter purchase); 11 procedures; 22 clinical treatments (advice and counselling); 6 referrals to specialists and 3 to allied health services; 30 orders for pathology tests and 7 imaging tests. A subsample study of measured risk factors in more than 31,000 patients suggests that in the adult (18 years and over) population who attended general practice at least once in 2014-15 the prevalence of obesity was 27 per cent, overweight was 34 per cent, daily smoking was 17 per cent, and at-risk alcohol consumption was 26 per cent. One in four people in the attending population had at least two of these risk factors. This book also contains a feature chapter examining changes in the care of older people (aged 65 years or more) in general practice over the 15 years 2000-01 to 2014-15. A companion publication, A Decade of Australian General Practice Activity 2005-06 to 2014-15 is also available.