Smile Dental had been the only practice offering NHS services in north of the island.<\/p>\n
The services were relocated to the island’s capital in December last year while significant refurbishment works, including pest control measures, were carried out at the northern hospital.<\/p>\n
Although all the disrupted services were initially due to return to Ramsey by April, “ongoing essential building works” saw a revised timeline issued.<\/p>\n
Under the new timeframe, the minor injuries unit, radiology and bone density scanning services, the blood clinic and some outpatient services would be reopened in mid-May.<\/p>\n
However, no date has been confirmed for the return of other services \u2013 including the dental practice \u2013 to Ramsey.<\/p>\n
Initially moved to the Hillside Dental Practice in Douglas in December, Smile Dental’s services were further relocated to operate from within the Community Dental Service at the Central Community Health Centre in January.<\/p>\n
The practice said while it had originally been advised the move would be short-term, it had now been informed that September was the “earliest possible return date”, signalling a “much longer term situation”.<\/p>\n
“We are working on the basis that services will resume once Ramsey Cottage Hospital reopens and the practice can return to a fully equipped, appropriate clinical environment,” it added.<\/p>\n
The practice had been allocating appointments on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at the temporarily location, with a shuttle bus for patients operating from Ramsey.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Smile Dental had been the only practice offering NHS services in north of the island. The services were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":["post-592007","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\/592007","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=592007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}