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Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
EDITORIAL (Open Access)

Primary health care: walking backwards into the future?

Tim Stokes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1127-1952 1 * , Felicity Goodyear-Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-9401 2
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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 15(3) 195-196 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23113
Published: 27 September 2023

© 2023 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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