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Kōrero: Primary health care

Hot and cold doctor file

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Hot and cold doctor file

Hot and cold doctor files recorded patients' positive and negative experiences of individual doctors' care. These files constituted a challenge to doctors, who were unable to control the information recorded in them. Members of Wellington's Hecate Women's Health Collective, from left Jill Carolyn, Tilly Lloyd and Marian Kleist, are pictured with the collective's file in 1983.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP-1983-4864

by Gail Selkirk

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Michael Belgrave, Primary health care – Challenges to GPs, late 20th century, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/31527/hot-and-cold-doctor-file (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Michael Belgrave, i tāngia i te 21 April 2011.