{"id":35037,"date":"2022-05-10T07:04:15","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T07:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=35037"},"modified":"2022-05-10T07:04:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-10T07:04:15","slug":"entire-county-cant-find-an-nhs-dentist-after-2000-quit-across-uk-last-year-somerset-branded-a-dental-desert-with-patients-in-pain-footing-1100-bills-by-having-to-go-private","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/10\/entire-county-cant-find-an-nhs-dentist-after-2000-quit-across-uk-last-year-somerset-branded-a-dental-desert-with-patients-in-pain-footing-1100-bills-by-having-to-go-private\/","title":{"rendered":"Entire COUNTY can&#8217;t find an NHS dentist after 2,000 QUIT across UK last year: Somerset branded a &#8216;dental desert&#8217; with patients in pain footing \u00a31,100 bills by having to go private"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22822\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign--293x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"293\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign--293x300.jpg 293w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign--1000x1024.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign--770x789.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign--500x512.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign-.jpg 1269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 293px) 100vw, 293px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Somerset has been branded a &#8216;dental desert&#8217; as thousands of patients across the county struggle to get access to dental care.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10795661\/Dentistry-crisis-Whole-county-shuts-new-NHS-patients-group-claims.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Somerset has been branded a &#8216;dental desert&#8217; as thousands of patients across the county struggle to get access to dental care.\u00a0 Read&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35037","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dentist-tooth-sign-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35038,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35037\/revisions\/35038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}