Time for a change? Unity not competition for the sake of our communities

Rawiri Keenan (Te Ati Awa, Taranaki); Jenny Carryer

doi:10.1071/HC24063

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Time for a change? Unity not competition for the sake of our communities

Rawiri Keenan (Te Ati Awa, Taranaki)

¹ ² ^* , Jenny Carryer

³

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- Author Affiliations

¹ Te Huataki Waiora, University of Waikato, TT Building, Gate 4, Hillcrest Road, Hamilton, Waikato, 3204, New Zealand.

² Department of Primary Care and General Practice, University of Otago Wellington, Wellington, 6242, New Zealand.

³ School of Nursing, Massey University, PB 11-222, Palmerston North, New Zealand.

^* Correspondence to: rawiri.keenan@waikato.ac.nz

Handling Editor: Felicity Goodyear-Smith

Journal of Primary Health Care 16(2) 118-120 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24063

Submitted: 30 April 2024 Accepted: 30 April 2024 Published: 14 May 2024

© 2024 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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