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Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
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How does cultural safety embed into our consultation models? A critical reflection

Lucy O’Hagan https://orcid.org/0009-0002-9768-1203 1 * , Kyle Eggleton https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5645-8326 2
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1 The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners, Wellington, New Zealand.

2 The University of Auckland, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: lucyohagan@gmail.com

Journal of Primary Health Care 15(1) 4-5 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23030
Published: 28 March 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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