The Isle of Wight Dental Clinic has announced that it will no longer be offering NHS dental services at the practice, just months after moving patients from Ryde to Wootton. It was just 5 months ago, in September 2023, that the practice moved from Tower House Surgery in Ryde to a former bathroom showroom in Wootton, as previously reported by Island Echo. Those in charge of the High Street practice have said that the decision comes after much reflection and that the decision has been ‘very challenging’. The practice says that to support its customers during the current cost of living crisis, they are introducing membership plans and 0% finance options, which will offer ‘flexibility and affordability without compromising the quality or care you deserve’. The Isle of Wight Dental Clinic has been ensuring the dental health of people across the Island for some 18 years. A spokesperson for the Isle of Wight Dental Clinic has said:
“Thank you for being an integral part of our dental family. Your trust is the bedrock of our practice, and it is an honour to continue serving you with the utmost compassion and care.”
This news comes just weeks after mydentist in Ryde and Newport also announced changes to the services they provide to NHS clients.
That is the new norm.
Yet the UK STILL allows in illegals, costing billions, and yet cannot treat its own people to decent health care.
WAKE UP people and SEE why. It is not coincidence.
If endless dirt poor keep arriving, then all have to be given ‘everything’ forever more. WE all pay for this.
Add the cost of them all getting free dental, health, education, housing after going through the process, but as new ones replace those then ‘legally allowed to say’ the cost is endless for us all.
Your children will pay one hell of a price for your apathy, or misplaced navie kindness imo
Very true and our grandchildren will suffer.
If I could halve my customers and double my income it wouldn’t be a very challenging decision.
Would have been nice of them to inform there patients personally,instead of finding out on here.
Brexit Britain. Hope you got what you voted for….
I may be wrong but hasn’t this only recently opened and got permission to use as NHS dental practice ,
it makes you wonder if this practice would of applied for a private clinic weather or not it would of got permission .
i may be wrong with my thinking !!!! But
Sheer greed, yes they offer payment plans that don’t cover certain treatments, well not unless you pay upfront for it anyway. It must be “Very Challenging” to decide to pick on the poorest in society and decide to rip people off for vital treatment.
Get it closed down, It has opened under false pretences. The Isle of Wight Dental Clinic has announced that it will no longer be offering NHS dental services at the practice, just months after moving patients from Ryde to Wootton. This is Just crap.
All the island dentists are interested in is serving people who can pay,the rest of us who can’t pay don’t matter as far as they are concerned.!!!
I go private. Doing so saves the NHS money but do I get a discount or a voucher? No I don’t.
I have so much to say about this. I’m angry that my NHS status has been removed from me after 25 years of regular visits. The letter received from the new practice is overly obsequious begging for customers to remain loyal to the practice. My first visit cost me £67 for a check and £30 for a deposit for a future hygiene appointment. How does anyone afford these costs on a six-monthly basis? I cannot get on any NHS dental waiting lists so have no option but to pay for private care. Which, quite frankly, I cannot afford.
I have written to our MP. I suggest we all do the same for any hope for change.
JAB
The NHS trains the dentists in this country. If there was a clause that said “must provide at least four years of NHS dental treatments to those in the community before being able to go onto private only clients, after completing NHS funded dental training” it would solve a lot of the issues.
Dentists are trained in universities and university hospitals. They pay fees for their training. You can’t force them to work for the NHS.
Many of them are trained and come from abroad. What better way to get employed for doing NHS and then move up where the money is . It’s all greed . They have no morals . It’s the ordinary hard working people that pay the price or in my case can no longer afford dental care on my waged. So I say to those after a hard and awkward decision, thank you so much it must have really been difficult for you….not
You have written to your MP?
good luck with that then,he will do NOTHING as he always does
People moaning about the few quid it costs to have their teeth checked privately but happy enough to waste thousands on their cars every year. Get your priorities sorted.
I think if the taxpayer and let’s face it most are should say if our taxes train you and put you thru Dentistry school and most student loans come from tax payers money!they should have to sign a contract so they have to be Nhs dentists for at least 7 years not gain a whole skill set from our money and b….r off and set up privately.
I am so angry. We joined he practice when it first started. We suspected this might happen, but have been assured for months that they were keeping NHS patients. To find out from a newspaper is unacceptable. How long before GP surgeries go the same way?
All dentists should have to take a percentage of NHS patients in order to be able to set up a practice by law.
Why should they do that? They get plenty of work without taking NHS patients.
Hello everyone I agree with a lot of the comments concerning the NHS we are in the same boat being pushed towards Private here in Orkney with extortionate prices inspections at £100 my partner and I between use paid £800 for a filling and two teeth out and scale and clean. To add insult to injury next to the private estimate charges was a NHS tariff price sheet.Its a joke. We need to stand up and bring our government to task for mismanagement of NHS funds
Why can I go to the hospital get seen have an op, eventually admitted, and endless others can turn up here and get free treatment but we can’t get Nhs treatment at my dentist!? Ridiculous state of affairs. If we’re to pay make it affordable and give incentives to keep out teeth healthy otherwise people won’t take their kids etc will they?
If an NHS trained dentist goes private only they should be forced to pay back the cost of their training.
More gummy bears these days