{"id":48119,"date":"2023-08-03T10:01:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=48119"},"modified":"2023-08-03T10:01:38","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T10:01:38","slug":"the-battle-for-an-nhs-dentist-more-than-100-people-queue-overnight-and-27000-calls-jammed-phone-lines-to-compete-for-just-60-nhs-places-at-kent-dental-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/08\/03\/the-battle-for-an-nhs-dentist-more-than-100-people-queue-overnight-and-27000-calls-jammed-phone-lines-to-compete-for-just-60-nhs-places-at-kent-dental-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"The battle for an NHS dentist: More than 100 people queue overnight and 27,000 calls jammed phone lines to compete for just 60 NHS places at Kent dental surgery"},"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-45605\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dentist-queue-178x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"178\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dentist-queue-178x300.jpg 178w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dentist-queue-360x607.jpg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/dentist-queue.jpg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 178px) 100vw, 178px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A dental practice received 27,000 phone calls after announcing it would be taking on new\u00a0<a tabindex=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/nhs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">NHS\u00a0<\/a>patients &#8211; while more than 100 people desperate for an appointment Read More<\/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>A dental practice received 27,000 phone calls after announcing it would be taking on new\u00a0NHS\u00a0patients &#8211; while more than 100 people desperate&#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-48119","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\/48119","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=48119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48120,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48119\/revisions\/48120"}],"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=48119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}