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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
EDITORIAL (Open Access)

Two heads are better than one?

Felicity Goodyear-Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-9401 1 * , Tim Stokes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1127-1952 2
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1 Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

2 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: f.goodyear-smith@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 14(2) 91-92 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22069
Published: 30 June 2022

© 2022 The Author(s) (or their employer(s)). Published by CSIRO Publishing on behalf of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND)


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