Sushruta is a quarterly, open access journal for healthcare professionals. The scope of this journal includes the full range of the multi-professional healthcare workforce, global partners and partners in the Indian sub-continent.

The journal aims to represent the breadth of issues on health policy and opinions which impact the readership, affect them and the wider healthcare community. It includes undergraduates, postgraduates and established professionals.

The views expressed are of the authors and the editorial board does not limit or direct the content except in maintaining professionalism, checking evidence base for references (where relevant). All care is taken to ensure that articles comply with current UK law and are GDPR compliant.

The members of the Editorial Board are voluntary and editorially independent of the sponsoring organisation (BAPIO). Sushruta is published by BAPIO Ltd in print, pdf and online. The Journal aims to fully comply with the Code of Publication Ethics https://publicationethics.org/core-practices. The Editorial Board meets every month on Thursdays 9pm online. All minutes of meetings are available. The Board has defined its mission, business and sustainability plan for 2020-2023. This is available on request.

Complaints Process

The journal is indemnified by BAPIO Publications through BAPIO Ltd.

Any complaints relating to the published material should first be submitted to the editors via email editor.sushruta@bapio.co.uk.

Any complaints relating to commercial interests or grievances with the editorial board can be addressed to the BAPIO Executive committee via admin@bapio.co.uk

We aim to provide a formal written response within 4 weeks or earlier.

Please submit all articles in MS Word format or as Rich Text. There is no strict limit on words but most articles should be within 2000 words and 10 references. References should be in Vancouver format.

All pictures. figures and tables should be sent separately and have clear indication in the text of the manuscript.

Authors must hold copyright for the material submitted.

Manuscripts can be submitted online or by email to editor.sushruta@bapio.co.uk

Sushruta will be moving to being included in DOI, Crossref and Google Scholar shortly and introducing a post publication peer review process from July 2020.

Sushruta has introduced an open peer review policy from July 2020 issue 2, which has 2 reviewers.

The Editorial review is published as a commentary explaining why the manuscript was commissioned / accepted and what it adds to the literature and impact on health policy/ professional opinions.

The independent peer review (1-2 reviewers) is conducted by a subject expert and comments will be published online along with any changes incorporated in the final version of the article in print.

The online peer review form is available here, for completion and submission online. You can download and submit a form by email to the editors.

For suggestions on peer reviewers for your submission please email to editor.sushruta@bapio.co.uk

Sushruta acknowledges the significant contribution of the scientific and healthcare professionals in upholding the robustness and sanctity of the peer review process.

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