Current news

Termination of Editorial Board Appointments

Please note that the following Editorial Board Members’ appointments have terminated from November 2009:

• Dr Garth Brink, South Africa, Appointment terminated on 17 November 2009
• Professor Tessa Dunseath, UK and Malaysia, Appointment terminated on 17 November 2009
• Dr Chuba Chigbo, UK, Appointment terminated on 17 November 2009

New Editorial Board Appointments in 2009

Congratulations to the following New Editorial Board Members who were appointed during the 2009 Editorial Board Meeting, and 2009 Editorial recruitments, whose appointments have been ratified by the Management Committee.

• Dr Ahmed Al-Kuwaiti, Saudi Arabia

• Dr Bruce Dixon, Australia

• Dr Angela Gibbons, UK

• Dr Fiona Adams,, UK

• Dr Phillippa Evans, UK

 Increase in the LJPC Journals Production and Circulation

The Production and Editorial Team is happy to announce that the LJPC Journal Production increased from 40 pages to 48 pages in Vol. 3 No 1 January 2010 for the online Edition of the Journal. The online version of the Journal has increased from 40 pages in Vol. 1 No. 2, January 2008 to 48 pages in Vol. 2 No 2 August 2009 Edition.  The Management Committee of the Publishers, IMPG would like to congratulate the Editor in Chief, Professor (Dr) Comfort Osonnaya, the Production Teams, and members of the Editorial Board for their hard work and dedication in the work of LJPC.

The Editorial and Production Teams would like to announce that they have withdrawn the short paper announcement, published in LJPC 2008, Volume 1, Number 1 as below: Evaluation of Gender Differences in the Application of Communication Skills, Emotional Labour, Stress-Coping, and Well-Being among Physicians Brenda-Lee Lovell, Raymond T. Lee, and Céleste M. Brotheridge

The Production and Editorial Team is happy to announce that the LJPC Journal Production increased from 28 pages to 36 pages in Vol. 2 No 1 January 2009 Edition for the print version of Journal. The online version of the Journal has increased from 32 pages in Vol. 1 No 2 2008 to 40 pages in Vol. 2 No 1 February 2009 Edition. Likewise, the circulation of the Journal increased from 250,000 in 2008 to 3,280 in the first half of 2009. The Management Committee of the Publishers, IMPG would like to congratulate the Editor in Chief, Professor (Dr) Comfort Osonnaya the Production Teams, and members of the Editorial Board for their hard work and dedication in the work of LJPC.

Congratulations to the following Board Members who were promoted during the 2008 Editorial Board Meeting, and 2009 recruitments, whose appointments have been ratified by the Management Committee.

• Professor Tessa Dunseath, UK, Chair of the Editorial Board
• Dr Chuba Chigbo, UK, Associate Editor, Clinical Issues
• Dr Arberesha Turijaka, Kosova, Associate Editor, Research Issues
• Dr Matilda Johnson, UK, Associate Editor, Educational issues
• Nevin Lata, UK, Editorial Administrator
• Emily Henderson, USA, Senior Managing Editor
• Mrs Natasha Mayer, USA, Project Manager
• Ethics Committee Members
• Dr Udo Schirmer, Germany
• Dr Dana Constantinescu, Romania
• Dr Christine Peters, UK
• Dr John Matthews, UK
• Dr Ilse Hellemann, Austria

We are happy to announce that we have been commissioned to publish the London Journal of Primary Care (LJPC) by the Joint International Academies of Research and Education (JIARE). The journal was approved by the Committees of JIARE during their meeting of August 1998. This was in response to the requests from JIARE membership on publicising the innovative work on research and education in primary care, which JIARE sponsors around London and the South East of England, United Kingdom.

The JIARE Committees agreed that the preparations for the publication of the journal’s first edition in 2008 would take place from 1999 to 2007, when some of the JIARE sponsored projects in London and South East England, UK would have been completed and new ones commissioned. It was agreed that two ISSN will be obtained for the Journal, which would be published twice a year both in print and online by 2007. As result the ISSN UK office has allocated the following ISSNs for LJPC:

London journal of primary care (Print): ISSN 1755-9146
London journal of primary care (Online): ISSN 1755-9154

The LJPC will aim to be the dynamic medium of communicating and promoting research, patient care and education in primary health care in London and the South East of England, UK, which will be beneficial to the wider international audience. The Committee agreed that an international Editorial Board would be appointed from 1998 to 2008 to reflect the importance of the projects and articles that would be published in the journal, and wider international relevance. It is anticipated that the first edition of LJPC would be published by 2008, and its website to be launched in 2008/2009.

Two editions of LJPC would be published in print with high quality articles, and other editions would also be published online with other high quality articles. The publication will also include debates, discussions and issues affecting research and education in primary care in London and South East, England, UK with relevance to other parts of the World.

As the Committee of JIARE had commissioned London Journal of Primary Care to cover the whole of London and the South East of England since 1998 to be published by us, we will be publishing it with the same high quality, innovative standard, excellence in style, great international and dynamic coverage, and relevance as we did with our other published journals. To this end we will work very hard to produce highest quality journal, which would be accepted to be indexed in various online databases like EMBASE, MEDLINE, and others as appropriate.

We are also very proud to announce that Dr Comfort Osonnaya had been appointed as Editor in Chief of the London Journal of Primary Care since 2003. Dr Osonnaya will bring the supreme editorial highest quality and leadership she had been giving to the International Journals of Medicine and General Practice and Primary Care to the London Journal of Primary Care.