Primary Health Care is a unique digital resource that allows readers to stay at the forefront of community, primary care and public health nursing, no matter their role.

The journal is available in print or digital formats and includes unlimited access to our website.

We publish original research, updates in policy or in practice guidelines, descriptions of clinical practice, literature reviews, case studies, opinion articles and news.

We also publish continuing professional development articles to inform, support and educate nurses working in this field of practice, and to help contributors and their readers prepare for revalidation.

If you have an idea for an article or how to develop the journal, the editorial team wants to hear from you. Areas we focus on include:

• Disease management
• Leadership
• Advanced practice
• Clinical skills
• Innovation and development
• Workforce

Primary Health Care is indexed with British Nursing Index and Ovid.

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Online publishing dates for Primary Health Care journal 2025

Volume and issue	*Online date
February 35.1	Tuesday 4 February
April 35.2	Tuesday 1 April
June 35.3	Tuesday 3 June
August 35.4	Tuesday 5 August
October 35.5	Tuesday 30 September
December 35.6	Tuesday 2 December

*subject to change

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Subscribe to Primary Health Care

Primary Health Care is now available as part of RCNi Plus, a purpose-built platform that brings together RCNi’s extensive range of resources and new personalisation features to help you stay up to date with information relevant to your practice.

RCNi Plus includes:

• Customisable RCNi Plus dashboard - choose topics to build your dashboard and create your own personalised feed of resources based on your professional interests.
• Full access to RCNi’s 10 journals online, including Nursing Standard - an archive of thousands of clinical and CPD articles, the latest news, and practical careers advice.
• RCNi Learning - 175 evidence-based learning modules covering a range of clinical specialities and professional issues within nursing.
• RCNi Revalidation Portfolio – build your evidence for revalidation and be guided through the process with helpful progress alerts.
• Personalised newsletters - the latest news and developments in your area of nursing sent direct to your inbox.

Subscribe now

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Organisational subscriptions

Organisations can also subscribe to Primary Health Care on behalf of their nurses or students.

Find out more

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Brand information

Primary Health Care
RCNi, 20 Cavendish Square, London, W1G 0RN

Subscription department
Royal College of Nursing Journal subscription department, Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff CF23 8XG
Tel: +44(0)345 772 6100

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Open access

RCNi journals offer open access publishing. To find out more see our open access information.

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Write for us

Are you interested in writing for Primary Health Care? To find out more about submissions please see our author guidelines.

At RCNi we have lots of information available to help you successfully write for publication. Please see our Write for us section, which details the many ways you can share your experience and knowledge to the benefit of our nursing community.

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Copyright

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All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted, or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. Please see our terms and conditions for more details.
ISSN 0264-5033 (print)
ISSN 2047-900X (online)