{"id":474605,"date":"2026-05-08T10:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474605\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T10:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T10:32:14","slug":"medical-card-holders-cut-off-from-dental-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/474605\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical Card Holders Cut Off From Dental Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/62c6e28bd932d.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n            Truly Dental cannot provide treatment services from June 24th.\n        <\/p>\n<p>Medical card holders are being cut out of the dental treatment system because of outdated legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Fianna Fail rep Tony McCormack is warning of a growing crisis after\u00a0Truly Dental, which has offices on Tullamore&#8217;s William Street and in Moate, confirmed it can no longer provide treatment under the Dental Treatment Services Scheme from June 24th.<\/p>\n<p>The scheme allows for services to be provided through agreements between the HSE and individual independent dentists.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy McCormack wants the same deal put in place for the larger chain practices which are becoming more common across the country:<\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Truly Dental cannot provide treatment services from June 24th. Medical card holders are being cut out of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[19870,19869,18,19,17,19872,11763,3136,19868,3172,19867,5,3171,5485,132,19871],"class_list":{"0":"post-474605","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-broadcast","9":"tag-broadcasting","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-irish-news","14":"tag-laois","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-local-radio","17":"tag-midlands","18":"tag-midlands-103","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-offaly","21":"tag-radio","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-westmeath"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116538503867387274","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}