Primary Health Care Research and Development

Primary Health Care Research and Development is the peer-reviewed research journal on primary health care — general practice, family medicine, community nursing, allied health in the community, integrated primary-secondary care, and the public-health interface with primary care.

Editorial scope covers the design and evaluation of primary-care services, chronic-disease management in the community (multimorbidity, frailty, the long-term consequences of acute illness, mental health in primary care), the primary-care workforce, the prescribing and stewardship of medicines in primary care, screening and prevention, and the primary-care research methods literature (consultation analysis, qualitative methods, pragmatic trials in primary care, routine-data research using GP electronic-record cohorts).

Founded under Hodder Arnold during the journal-list expansion of the early 2000s, the journal was subsequently moved to Cambridge University Press, where it continues to be published. Back-issue articles from the Arnold years remain cited in current primary-care guidelines and integrated-care policy reviews.