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

From good to great: the potential for the Health Care Home model to improve primary health care quality in New Zealand

Martin Hefford
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1 Compass Health, Wellington, New Zealand

Correspondence to: Martin Hefford, Compass Health, Wellington, PO Box 27380, New Zealand. Email: martin.hefford@compasshealth.org.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 9(3) 230-233 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC17045
Published: 22 August 2017

Journal Compilation © Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners 2017.
This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.


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