The Canterbury Initiative – implementation of integration
Graham McGeoch 1 * , Carolyn Gullery 2 , Greg Hamilton 3
+ Author Affiliations
- Author Affiliations
1 Better Health Group, PO Box 33388, Barrington, Christchurch 8244, New Zealand.
2 Planning and Funding and Decision Support, Canterbury District Health Board, Christchurch, New Zealand.
3 Specialist Mental Health Services, Canterbury District Health Board, New Zealand.
* Correspondence to: mcgeochg@gmail.com
Journal of Primary Health Care 14(1) 6-9 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv14n1_ED3
Published: 13 April 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)
Keywords: Canterbury, healthcare access, healthcare system redesign, HealthPathways, integrated care, leadership, pathways, whole of health system.
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