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Nov 2023
Chatsworth House dental patients in Harrogate to be offered alternative NHS provision
NHS dental patients at Chatsworth House Dental Clinic, in Harrogate, will be offered treatment at alternative NHS practices next month.
Chatsworth House, on King’s Road, announced in September it would stop providing NHS treatments from December 1.
The move heightened concerns about the lack of access to NHS dentistry in the Harrogate district.
It prompted Andrew Jones, the Conservative MP for Harrogate and Knaresborough, to seek assurances from the Integrated Care Board for Humber and North Yorkshire that local NHS provision would be expanded.
Mr Jones said today he had been told any patient on Chatsworth House’s roll in the last two years will be sent a letter by the NHS next month explaining where the new provision will be available.
Subject to the terms and conditions of their contract, any former NHS patient who has signed up for private services with Chatsworth House can apply to a new provider.
Mr Jones said:
Mr Jones said more than 50 Chatsworth House patients had contacted him.
The ICB letter to Mr Jones said:
Mr Jones added he had "longer term aspirations for dentistry in our area:, adding:
A review of NHS dentistry in August 2021 also found that there was just one NHS dentist practice per 10,000 people in the Harrogate district.
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