BJGP Open: championing global primary health care
Social Care Special Issue: Call for Articles
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Throughout 2026, BJGP Open is welcoming submissions on the integration of social care with primary care services, especially articles examining how this collaboration can enhance the wellbeing of individuals, improve patient outcomes, and foster more efficient, holistic, and person-centred care. Find out more on the Social Care Call for Articles page.
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BJGP Open is an international, peer reviewed, open access, online-only journal of primary care, which publishes original research and other articles of importance to primary care clinicians, researchers and teachers worldwide.
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Latest Articles
Recent Features
Telephone-first
Recent years have seen increasing pressure on primary care appointments, with ‘telephone-first’ introduced in the UK to manage demand and workload. This study examines how older people and general practice staff experience telephone-first to make appointments.
Bullying
School bullying is an important public health issue with profound mental and physical health consequences, but in France data are lacking on prevalence and detection. Systematic screening for school bullying using brief, self-administered PPC-17 in primary care reveals a high prevalence of risk, and uncovers important gender and age patterns that can direct GPs’ preventive and therapeutic actions.
Empathy and suicidality
Suicidal ideation is associated with chronic pain. This target trial emulation found decreased risk of suicidal ideation among patients with chronic pain when their primary healthcare provider showed greater patient-reported clinical empathy.
Altmetric Data
Altmetric tracks attention and engagement of scholarly articles.The following list shows the articles most frequently shared in social media over the past six months.
- General practitioners’ perspectives on patients presenting with endometriosis symptoms – an interview studyLast mentioned on Wed Jul 08 2026
- Telehealth’s future in Australian Primary Health Care: Lessons from the COVID-19 PandemicLast mentioned on Mon Apr 27 2026
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