Patients outraged after appointments cancelled
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- Published: Wednesday, 30 April 2014 07:52
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People living in Westbury, Wiltshire have complained to a local paper saying that they were ‘outraged’ after dental appointments there were cancelled until April due to NHS funding running out. The reason given for all NHS appointments in the town throughout March being cancelled is because the allocated funding for the financial year has been exhausted.
But it was dentists, rather than the NHS who were blamed. One patient told the paper: “Our appointment was made months ago and we can’t rearrange another appointment for five weeks. Friends had their appointment cancelled and weren’t able to rearrange until May. It is terrible patient care by dentists who are presumably trained under the NHS but don’t have enough respect to treat people who can’t go private.”
Another said it was a ‘ridiculous system we are in currently’ and that it was ‘totally unacceptable.’ A spokesperson for a group practice in the town said they were working with NHS England to look at the possibility of increasing ther capacity to treat NHS patients. ‘We alerted the NHS as soon as we started to get close to our existing maximum capacity,’ they said, ‘and as a result, NHS England is looking at the possibility of providing additional funds to help support the increasing demand.’
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