We welcome Dr Sarah White as Guest Editor for a special collection of articles on telehealth in primary care, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic. Sarah is a Senior Lecturer at Macquarie University and her research focuses on communication in clinical consultations. We welcome primary research and comparative analyses that elucidate differences in international responses linked to primary data on how access, continuity, comprehensiveness, coordination, and person-focused care are changing, and the subsequent impact on health and social outcomes. Documenting the outcomes of the myriad natural experiments playing out around the globe will generate important new evidence on the contribution of different primary care functions to the health of societies. Full details can be found here.

The Black Lives Matter campaign has highlighted issues of race and racism that are present in all parts of our communities and organisations. In this special collection of BJGP Open, we have collated evidence from recent individual lived experiences, alongside practice and practice submissions on this important issue. We additionally set out the journal’s ambitious programme of work to tackle racism within publication science, and we open consultation on the collection of anonymised sociodemographic data from all our authors. This will allow us to report publication statistics by ethnicity and make changes to address disparities, if they are found. We are interested in hearing your opinions. Join the conversation on Twitter with the hashtag #RacismInPrimaryCare, send us an e-letter at https://bjgpopen.org/letters, or email us.