{"id":273723,"date":"2025-11-20T14:46:22","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273723\/"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T14:46:22","slug":"audiology-services-to-return-to-dorking-community-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/273723\/","title":{"rendered":"Audiology services to return to Dorking Community Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The service will now be provided by Dorking Healthcare in partnership with First Community Health and Care, a local NHS community healthcare provider.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jack Wagstaff, executive director for strategic commissioning at the Integrated Care Board (ICB) said: &#8220;Ever since the service had to relocate to Kingston, we have been working proactively with Kingston &amp; Richmond NHS Foundation Trust and other local partners to find an alternative provider to deliver this important service locally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We recognise the difficulties experienced by patients with longer travel times to Kingston and would like to thank people for their understanding over the past months.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Coghlan said: &#8220;This impacted hundreds of my constituents so I ran a petition and brought in local media to put pressure on the ICB to bring this crucial service back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This is great news, and many people have already got in touch telling me that they&#8217;re very glad they no longer have to struggle with getting to Kingston to access this crucial service.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The service will now be provided by Dorking Healthcare in partnership with First Community Health and Care, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273724,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-273723","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\/273723","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=273723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}