{"id":217269,"date":"2025-10-22T06:50:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217269\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T06:50:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:50:09","slug":"wiltshire-nhs-dentist-availability-criticised-by-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/217269\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiltshire NHS dentist availability criticised by families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The DHSC said the 10-year plan for the NHS in England &#8211; a document which delves into the wider issue of healthcare across the country &#8211; includes improvements on dentistry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A spokesperson said: &#8220;This government inherited a broken NHS dental system, but we&#8217;re getting on with fixing it through our plan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile a spokesperson from Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Care Board said: &#8220;There are measures in place across the south west to increase dental access for patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These include commissioning additional urgent dental care that can be accessed by calling NHS 111, providing additional children&#8217;s orthodontic capacity and promoting oral health improvement initiatives, such as the supervised toothbrushing programmes taking place in local schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The ICB also says there is no geographical restriction on dental practices taking NHS patients, meaning people can look further out their towns or villages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The DHSC said the 10-year plan for the NHS in England &#8211; a document which delves into the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-217269","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}