Providing health care across distance – Scottish solutions to rural challenges
Carol Atmore
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Correspondence to: Carol Atmore (HRC Foxley Fellow), Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand. Email: carol.atmore@otago.ac.nz
Journal of Primary Health Care 8(3) 189-192 https://doi.org/10.1071/HCv8n3_ED3
Published: 27 September 2016
Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2016.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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