Letters to the editor

Please send all letters to the editor directly to bmj.com as rapid responses. Please do not send them to our online form (coming soon)

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We aim to post all such responses on (www.londonjournalofprimarycare.org), usually within 24 hours of receipt. All responses are eligible for publication in the paper journal and are selected four weeks after the publication of the original article to which they respond. Authors will automatically be contacted by email if their response has been accepted for the paper journal but not if it has not. We are unable to send proofs to authors before publication.

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