{"id":312738,"date":"2026-02-23T09:03:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:03:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T09:03:09","slug":"nhs-places-could-nearly-double-in-dental-desert-bridlington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/312738\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS places could nearly double in &#8216;dental desert&#8217; Bridlington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board published details of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.find-tender.service.gov.uk\/Notice\/014773-2026?origin=SearchResults&amp;p=1#award_contract-1\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">two new contracts to provide dental services, external<\/a> in the Bridlington area, each lasting five years and worth more than \u00a33m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One is expected to be awarded to Whitecross Dental Care, which is part of the mydentist group, and the other to Genix Healthcare, which has six clinics in Yorkshire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The contracts are likely to be confirmed on 3 March and the BBC understands they would almost double the provision already available in the town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bridlington resident Micheal Greenwood, 67, said he travelled to Driffield, a distance of about 13 miles (21km), for treatment as it was &#8220;impossible&#8221; to get an appointment in the town. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Bridlington&#8217;s a poor town, people haven&#8217;t got the money to go private, they rely on the NHS,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow resident Caron Urch said she hoped the new practice would save her money after she previously paid \u00a3200 to have a tooth taken out at a private dentist.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She also said her eight-year-old grandson could not get an appointment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Reacting to the plans, Urch said: &#8220;I think it&#8217;s about time it happened because there&#8217;s just nothing around here for NHS dentists.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Wednesday, the NHS Humber and North Yorkshire Integrated Care Board published details of two new contracts to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[103,397,396,61,60],"class_list":["post-312738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}