{"id":438529,"date":"2026-05-08T10:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438529\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:33:09","slug":"medical-card-holders-cut-off-from-dental-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/438529\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Card Holders Cut Off From Dental Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/62c6e28bd932d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Truly Dental cannot provide treatment services from June 24th.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Medical card holders are being cut out of the dental treatment system because of outdated legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna Fail rep Tony McCormack is warning of a growing crisis after\u00a0Truly Dental, which has offices on Tullamore&#8217;s William Street and in Moate, confirmed it can no longer provide treatment under the Dental Treatment Services Scheme from June 24th.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme allows for services to be provided through agreements between the HSE and individual independent dentists.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy McCormack wants the same deal put in place for the larger chain practices which are becoming more common across the country:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Truly Dental cannot provide treatment services from June 24th. Medical card holders are being cut out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3279,319,61,60,2673,8285,1529,8284,8282,8283,43,8286,700,112,59],"class_list":["post-438529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-broadcast","tag-broadcasting","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-irish-news","tag-laois","tag-local-news","tag-local-radio","tag-midlands","tag-midlands-103","tag-news","tag-offaly","tag-radio","tag-sports","tag-westmeath"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438529","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=438529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}