\n Bosses at West Earlham Dental Practice, in NR5, want to build a single extension to its premises in Earlham West Centre.\n<\/p>\n
\n According to the proposals, the extra space will enable the surgery to increase patient capacity significantly – from approximately 10,000 to 25,000 patients.\n<\/p>\n
\n Agents for the practice said in the plans: “It will directly address a documented shortage of NHS dental provision in Norwich and across Norfolk.\n<\/p>\n
\n “Evidence demonstrates substantially unmet needs and limited access to NHS dental services locally.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The extension, if approved by Norwich City Council, will also include decontamination facilities to meet modern clinical standards, IT infrastructure and a revamped entrance and reception area to improve patient flow, accessibility and security.\n<\/p>\n
\n Planning papers also say the practice is in an area “experiencing recognised health inequalities”.\n<\/p>\n
\n It says: “Access to NHS dentistry in Norfolk has been identified as being among the poorest nationally, with high levels of unmet need.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The surgery’s agents added: “This proposal represents a modest, well-designed extension to an established community healthcare facility.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It delivers clear and substantial public benefits by expanding NHS dental capacity in an area of evidenced need, while remaining fully compliant with local and national planning policy.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It comes amid a fresh wave of pressure from Norfolk MPs on the government to help end the ‘dental desert’ that stops people getting NHS treatment for their teeth.\n<\/p>\n
\n The group has unanimously called for ministers to trigger the process which would allow a new dental school to be established in Norwich.\n<\/p>\n
\n The University of East Anglia has received accreditation from the General Dental Council to provide undergraduate dental training.\n<\/p>\n
\n But it cannot start enrolling students until government ministers instruct the Office for Students to allocate undergraduate places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bosses at West Earlham Dental Practice, in NR5, want to build a single extension to its premises in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531213,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-531212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-health","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}