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Demand forces dentist to pause NHS requests
Western Daily Press
|September 25, 2025
WELLINGTON’S newest dental practice has paused taking on NHS patients due to overwhelming demand from local residents.
The NHS Somerset integrated care board (ICB) has been striving to increase NHS appointments within “dental deserts” - that is, areas within the county where relatively few people can access an NHS dentist, forcing them to go private or go without treatment.
Health bosses confirmed earlier in September that Wellington Dental Care, based on the Lowmoor Industrial Estate at the town’s northern edge, would begin taking expressions of interest from residents, with a phased opening beginning in October.
But the practice has now had to pause these expressions of interest after nearly 4,000 patients got in touch asking for an appointment.
Dit verhaal komt uit de September 25, 2025-editie van Western Daily Press.
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