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Contact Details

Phone
+64 21 279 7446
Email
tim.stokes@otago.ac.nz

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Position
Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice and Head of Department
Department
Department of General Practice and Rural Health (Dunedin)
Qualifications
MA (Oxf) MPhil (Camb) MB ChB (Edin) MPH (Nott) PhD (Leic) MD (Otago) FRCP FRCGP FRNZCGP
Research summary
Health Services Research
Memberships
  • Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Primary Health Care
  • Editorial Board, Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications
  • President, Australasian Association for Academic Primary Care (AAAPC)

Research

Tim Stokes is the Elaine Gurr Professor of General Practice, Head of Department of General Practice and Rural Health (DSM), and a General Practitioner.

He was Senior Clinical Lecturer in Primary Care, University of Birmingham 2013–2014; Consultant Clinical Adviser, National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Leicester and Leeds 2006–2013, and Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in General Practice, University of Leicester, UK 1997–2006.

He was a member of NZ’s Pharmaceutical Management Agency (PHARMAC) Pharmacology and Therapeutics Advisory Group (PTAC) from 2016 to 2022.

He is a health services researcher, with a particular interest in health care delivery and implementation research. He is interested in:

  • Rural health services and health systems
  • Evaluating complex health system interventions, including whether and how collaborative partnership working in the NZ health system can improve service integration and health outcomes
  • New ways of delivering health services for acute and chronic clinical conditions in primary care and across the primary/community – secondary care interface

Current and previous nationally funded research projects as Principal Investigator include:

  • Do locality network partnerships improve health system performance and outcomes? HRC Project Grant 20/875
  • Do regional DHB groupings improve service integration and health outcomes? HRC Project Grant 18/138
  • Delivering better care for people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), HRC Research Partnerships for New Zealand Health Delivery Grant 15/655

Publications

Stokes, T., & Goodyear-Smith, F. (2025). Equitable access to primary health care: Better availability of GP appointments is only one piece of the jigsaw. Journal of Primary Health Care, 17(1), 1-3. doi: 10.1071/hc25047 Journal - Research Other

Miller, R., Turner, R., Davie, G., Stokes, T., Crengle, S., McLeod, A., … Nixon, G. (2025). Is there a difference in ischaemic heart disease deaths that occur without a preceding hospital admission in people who live in rural compared with urban areas of Aotearoa New Zealand? An observational study. BMJ Open, 15, e088691. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-088691 Journal - Research Article

Bishop, G., Penno, E., & Stokes, T. (2024). Mixing it up: Exploring the motivations and experiences of consultants in public-private dual practice in southern New Zealand. Proceedings of the 13th Health Services Research Association of Australia and New Zealand (HSRAANZ) Conference. 217. Retrieved from https://www.hsraanz.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Stokes, T. (2024). From clinical guidelines to implementation science: Changing clinical practice and health care delivery (MD). University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10523/42748 Awarded Doctoral Degree

Akmal, A., Podgorodnichenko, N., Gauld, R., & Stokes, T. (2024). Evaluating the 2022 New Zealand health reforms: Insights from event system theory. Proceedings of the 37th Australian & New Zealand Academy of Management (ANZAM) Conference. (pp. 881-890). Retrieved from https://anzamconference.org/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Full paper

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