Future Healthcare Journal (FHJ) is a peer-reviewed academic journal with a multidisciplinary editorial board stimulating debate about all aspects of future healthcare. Each issue has a theme featuring commissioned articles from national and international experts providing authoritative overviews as well as submitted papers. Themed issues are published online when collated but all accepted articles are available immediately for rapidity of referencing and citation. Articles feature digital health and artificial intelligence, illness prevention, multidisciplinary workforce planning, system re-engineering, population health, lifestyle medicine and therapeutic advances. The emphasis is on providing practical solutions to current healthcare challenges. It has strong involvement of trainees and encourages submissions on QI and audit rarely found in other journals. FHJ tackles contentious issues and aims to provide readers with the tools to facilitate transformational change at an individual and organisational level. Articles should be of interest and understandable to a broad audience of healthcare professionals and leaders who may be involved in making system changes in their own organisation.  While the journal is affiliated with the Royal College of Physicians (RCP), it has full editorial independence.From January 1, 2024, Future Healthcare Journal becomes a full gold open access journal freely available for everyone to access and read. All articles submitted after January 1, 2024, are subject to an article publishing charge (APC) after peer review and acceptance. We are pleased to inform you that Future Healthcare Journal waives the APC (Article Publishing Charge) for all submissions received before 31 December 2025, which are accepted for publication after peer review. Learn more about hybrid journals moving to open access.
Heliyon considers research from all areas of the physical, applied, life, social and medical sciences. We publish manuscripts reporting scientifically accurate and valuable research, which adheres to accepted ethical and scientific publishing standards. As such Heliyon publishes new insights as well as extensions on existing theories, negative/null results and replication studies.Submissions covering arts, humanities and law are not considered in Heliyon. Authors of these submissions are encouraged to submit directly to our partner journal Social Sciences & Humanities Open.Heliyon classifies manuscripts/articles into different sections based on the research topic discussed. Some sections exclude certain types of studies from their scope. To know more and to see the kind of manuscripts the various sections publish, please visit: https://www.cell.com/heliyon/sectionsA dedicated in-house editorial office team, internal editors as well as external academic section and associate editors handle your manuscript and manage the publication process, giving your research the editorial support and quality control it deserves.If it's important to you, it's important to us. Submit your paper today.
