Chronic Illness is a peer reviewed scholarly journal which provides a forum in which researchers from a wide range of disciplines, clinicians, policy makers, and people living with chronic illness come together to clarify the common principles underlying the experience and management of chronic illness. Specifically, it:

• Publishes high quality original research
• Informs practices and policies in relation to chronic illness
• Provides rigorous insight into the experiences of people living with long term medical conditions.

Chronic Illness is an important journal for those who study, work with, manage or experience chronic illness. It integrates academic and clinical perspectives, and those of people living with long term medical conditions. It promotes new thinking about models of illness and care. It considers the range of appropriate clinical and psychosocial interventions, including organisational frameworks at the interface between primary and secondary care.

It encourages the study of emerging issues in early diagnostics; outcome based performance, data gathering and surveillance challenges; ageing and developmental issues; the changing self-perceptions of people with chronic illness; quality of life measures and interventions; medication concordance; and the efficacy of self-management strategies, group participation programmes and remote medical management.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).