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Aotearoa New Zealand general practice workforce crisis: what are our solutions?

Albert Andrew https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9451-4533 1 *
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1 School of Medicine, The University of Auckland, Auckland, 1023, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: albertandrew@hotmail.co.nz, aand273@aucklanduni.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care https://doi.org/10.1071/HC23178
Submitted: 31 December 2023  Accepted: 31 January 2024  Published: 20 February 2024

© 2024 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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