{"id":775672,"date":"2026-09-19T10:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775672\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:24:12","slug":"south-west-free-dental-scheme-reaches-a-third-of-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/775672\/","title":{"rendered":"South West free dental scheme reaches a third of target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Councillor Leigh Frost, the Liberal Democrats leader of Cornwall Council, said the current provision of NHS dentists was &#8220;absolutely shocking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;These services exist to help people in their time of need and if they&#8217;re not getting that access, we need to solve those problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;More regular check-ups for people then means they aren&#8217;t actually going to get that seriously ill which then puts a pressure on our acute care and our crisis care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The British Dental Association has called for the government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bda.org\/news-and-opinion\/news\/an-exodus-still-in-motion-23-of-dentists-still-plan-to-cut-nhs-work\/\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">to go further, external<\/a> with changes to the existing contract which leaves dentists not sufficiently remunerated for the cost of treating NHS patients. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Jenna Murgatroyd, chair of the local dental committee for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, said: &#8220;The government is trying to make small changes. Those tweaks are just making an already difficult contract even harder to understand. That in itself is driving dentists away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just too complicated. We do need a fundamental change to the NHS contract,&#8221; she added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Councillor Leigh Frost, the Liberal Democrats leader of Cornwall Council, said the current provision of NHS dentists was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":775673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[59,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-775672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-gb","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775672","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=775672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/775673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}