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Journal of Primary Health Care Journal of Primary Health Care Society
Journal of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners
EDITORIAL (Open Access)

‘We’re not taking on any new patients’: the reality of the funding and workforce crisis in primary care

Felicity Goodyear-Smith https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6657-9401 1 * , Tim Stokes https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1127-1952 2
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1 Department of General Practice & Primary Health Care, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.

2 Department of General Practice and Rural Health, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.

* Correspondence to: f.goodyear-smith@auckland.ac.nz

Journal of Primary Health Care 17(2) 99-100 https://doi.org/10.1071/HC25095
Submitted: 5 June 2025  Accepted: 11 June 2025  Published: 27 June 2025

© 2025 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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