Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Emergency Dental services
a friend, currently unemployed, has dental problems ongoing but last night found himself in terrible pain and none of the usual paracetemol, ibuprofen was having any effect. I ended up driving him to the Whittington Hospital Emergency deptartment at 4 a.m. as he was in such terrible pain. There was one nurse on duty and a few people in the waiting room. We were told that no one could see him as it was a dental problem - and that there was a several hour wait anyway - if you did wait all the docs would offer was paracetemol or ibuprofen.
There was a sign with a number for a 24 hour emergency dentist - saying NHS or private. I rang them and found that to see an NHS dentist was for normal office hours ie 9-5. The private would see him sooner but at a cost of £85 +
He eventually got to see an NHS dentist at 2pm this afternoon who gave him antibiotics and strong painkillers after a night of awful pain.
Is this the best the NHS can do?
There was a sign with a number for a 24 hour emergency dentist - saying NHS or private. I rang them and found that to see an NHS dentist was for normal office hours ie 9-5. The private would see him sooner but at a cost of £85 +
He eventually got to see an NHS dentist at 2pm this afternoon who gave him antibiotics and strong painkillers after a night of awful pain.
Is this the best the NHS can do?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Guys Hospital used to do an all-hours emergency service - anyone know if this still happens? Their website is vague re hours, but they do still do free treatment - by student dentists but well supervised they say.
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Permalink Reply by Sapphireblue on
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Yes but Guys is hardly local... why haven't we got a LOCAL emergency service. And I suspect after phoning round hospitals last night that any dental service for NHS patients is 9-5 only even at Guys. I phoned the Eastman at UCL for example...
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Permalink Reply by james walsh on
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You are only alowed to be ill during opening times
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yeh so it seems - unless you have money of course. I have also emailed David Lammy and asked him to check out this discussion so I hope a few more of us enter the debate....or perhaps emergency dental care doesn't happen to other people?????
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Does nobody else have dental emergencies? Or do you all go private? Or only have them Mon- Fri 9-5? Someone must know of an emergency NHS dental service outside those hours?eg the middle of the night or on the weekend????
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