Dental services axed
Friday, 2.30pm: Dental access centres in Spalding and Holbeach are set to close on Monday, after health chiefs decided they are no longer needed.
NHS Lincolnshire says that a decline in numbers shows that the centres based at the new Johnson Community Hospital and Holbeach Health Centre, are no longer required, with an increase in NHS dental practices meaning the majority of patients can access emergency care from their NHS dentist.
The NHS says more than 3m has been spent on increasing dental services across the county over the past two years and that there has been a 22 per cent fall in the numbers of people using access centres for treatment than they were two years ago.
Dental access centres were formed in a bid to offer care to people who don't have an NHS dentist, along with those who can't get emergency treatment from their own dentist.
The centres in South Holland are among five which will shut and it is unclear what patients who do not have a regular dentist will do if they require emergency treatment.
For the full story see this week's Spalding Guardian.
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Thursday 24 May 2012
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