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Recruitment and retention of staff in rural dispensing primary care practice: a qualitative inquiry

Rosina Cross, Sinead TJ McDonagh, Emma Cockcroft, Malcolm Turner, Matthew Isom, Robert Lambourn, John L Campbell and Christopher E Clark
BJGP Open 2024; 8 (1): BJGPO.2023.0130. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0130
Rosina Cross
1 Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care, Department of Health and Community Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
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2 Dispensing Doctors’ Association Limited, North Yorkshire, UK
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vol. 8 no. 1 BJGPO.2023.0130
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https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2023.0130
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37977659

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Royal College of General Practitioners
History 
  • Received July 14, 2023
  • Revision received October 4, 2023
  • Accepted October 26, 2023
  • Published online April 25, 2024.

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  1. Rosina Cross1,*,
  2. Sinead TJ McDonagh1,
  3. Emma Cockcroft1,
  4. Malcolm Turner1,
  5. Matthew Isom2,
  6. Robert Lambourn3,
  7. John L Campbell1 and
  8. Christopher E Clark1
  1. 1 Exeter Collaboration for Academic Primary Care, Department of Health and Community Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, University of Exeter, Exeter, UK
  2. 2 Dispensing Doctors’ Association Limited, North Yorkshire, UK
  3. 3 Cheviot Primary Care Centre, Wooler, Northumberland, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Rosina Cross, r.cross2{at}exeter.ac.uk
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