{"id":493529,"date":"2026-03-25T00:32:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493529\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T00:32:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T00:32:18","slug":"health-board-moves-as-five-powys-nhs-dentist-contracts-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/493529\/","title":{"rendered":"Health board moves as five Powys NHS dentist contracts end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Powys Teaching Health Board will be sending out a second mobile dental unit after it was confirmed that three NHS dental services in north Powys will stop as of April 1.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Along with this, two NHS Contracts for children have been ended in Builth Wells and in Crickhowell.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of the dentists that has announced the end of its services is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/news\/25894295.welshpools-mydentist-set-stop-treating-nhs-patients\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">MyDentist in Welshpool<\/a> where two clinicians decided to end their NHS contract.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The issue will be discussed at a meeting of Powys Teaching Health Board next week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the papers for the meeting, it notes that \u201cwe are aware of three dental practices in the north of Powys who have communicated with their patients indicating that from April 1 they will cease NHS dental care.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe have recently been in discussion with all three, none of which have formally served contractual notice.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe understand that this is causing a high level of concern for the population and we are in the process of preparing for immediate procurement should this be necessary.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Help support trusted local news\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Sign up for a digital subscription now:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/subscribe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">www.countytimes.co.uk\/subscribe<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  As a digital subscriber you will get\n<\/p>\n<p>  Unlimited access to the\u00a0County Times\u00a0website<\/p>\n<p>  Advert-light access<\/p>\n<p>  Reader rewards<\/p>\n<p>  Full access to our app<\/p>\n<p>\n  Along with this the papers confirm that there has been a change to the dental contract model this year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The new contract model \u201cdoes not allow for child only contracts\u201d this will mean the contracts in Builth Wells and Crickhowell will cease.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Powys Teaching Health Board has confirmed that it has \u201cput in place replacement activity with another contractor and our Community Dental Service\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Health Board has also \u201ctaken delivery of the second <a href=\"https:\/\/www.countytimes.co.uk\/news\/24587456.nhs-community-dentist-serve-hay-wye-three-months\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mobile Dental Unit<\/a>\u201d and \u201crecruitment is underway to enable services to be delivered where most required in the mid and north areas of Powys\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Powys Teaching Health Board will be sending out a second mobile dental unit after it was confirmed that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-493529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493529","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=493529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}