New Zealand’s health system reforms: an uncertain road paved with good intentions?
Tim Stokes
1 * , Felicity Goodyear-Smith 2
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations
1 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand.
2 Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
* Correspondence to: tim.stokes@otago.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 14(3) 191-193 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC22112
Published: 30 September 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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