TY - JOUR T1 - June Focus JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 434 LP - 434 VL - 57 IS - 539 AU - David Jewell Y1 - 2007/06/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/57/539/434.abstract N2 - ‘And what should they know of England who only England know?’R Kipling – The English Flag 1892Some RCGP members who recently answered a survey about their reading habits (and many thanks to all who did so), expressed surprise about the numbers of papers we publish that come from overseas. They concluded that this shows how easy it is to get a paper published in the BJGP and that there are simply not enough from the UK to fill the journal. Not so. The aim is to be an international journal — we cannot survive if we only publish papers coming from the UK, and it is an oddly parochial view to believe we have nothing to learn from primary care elsewhere, or indeed to give to the rest of the world (page 437).This month, for instance, we have a study from Belgium documenting a striking reduction in the … ER -