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What’s been tried: a curated catalogue of efforts to improve access to general practice

Carol Sinnott, Evleen Price, Akbar Ansari, Rebecca Fisher, Jake Beech, Hugh Alderwick and Mary Dixon-Woods
BJGP Open 2025; 9 (2): BJGPO.2024.0184. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0184
Carol Sinnott
1 The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
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vol. 9 no. 2 BJGPO.2024.0184
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https://doi.org/10.3399/BJGPO.2024.0184
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39788604

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Royal College of General Practitioners
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  • Received July 31, 2024
  • Revision received October 22, 2024
  • Accepted November 27, 2024
  • Published online July 23, 2025.

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  1. Carol Sinnott1,*,
  2. Evleen Price1,
  3. Akbar Ansari1,
  4. Rebecca Fisher2,
  5. Jake Beech3,
  6. Hugh Alderwick3 and
  7. Mary Dixon-Woods1
  1. 1 The Healthcare Improvement Studies Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
  2. 2 Nuffield Trust, London, UK
  3. 3 The Health Foundation, London, UK
  1. ↵ *For correspondence:
    Carol Sinnott, carol.sinnott{at}thisinstitute.cam.ac.uk
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