The primary care workforce crisis: defining the problems and finding solutions

Felicity Goodyear-Smith; Tim Stokes

doi:10.1071/HC24078

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The primary care workforce crisis: defining the problems and finding solutions

Felicity Goodyear-Smith

¹ ^* , Tim Stokes

²

+ Author Affiliations

- Author Affiliations

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 16(2) 115-117 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC24078

Submitted: 10 June 2024 Accepted: 11 June 2024 Published: 28 June 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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