{"id":43146,"date":"2023-03-06T13:43:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=43146"},"modified":"2023-03-06T13:43:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T13:43:03","slug":"a-kick-in-the-teeth-11million-brits-were-unable-to-get-an-nhs-dentist-appointment-last-year-leaving-some-to-pull-out-their-own-teeth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/03\/06\/a-kick-in-the-teeth-11million-brits-were-unable-to-get-an-nhs-dentist-appointment-last-year-leaving-some-to-pull-out-their-own-teeth\/","title":{"rendered":"A kick in the teeth: 11MILLION Brits were unable to get an NHS dentist appointment last year &#8211; leaving some to pull out their own teeth"},"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-24031\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools-770x433.jpg 770w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/dentist-tools.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Roughly 11million people in England failed to get an\u00a0<a id=\"mol-3785bbc0-bc20-11ed-af7a-956943244fac\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">NHS<\/a> dentist appointment last year, shock data suggests. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/health\/article-11825729\/11MILLION-Brits-unable-NHS-dentist-appointment-year.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>Roughly 11million people in England failed to get an\u00a0NHS dentist appointment last year, shock data suggests. Read More<\/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-43146","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\/43146","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=43146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43147,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43146\/revisions\/43147"}],"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=43146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}