Bridlington Health Forum calls for better health services and dentists
The town's recently had a re-organisation of its GP surgeries
There are still calls for improvements in Bridlington to the health service and especially the dental crisis.
The town's recently had a re-organisation of its GP surgeries, but the main concern is to do with getting your teeth checked.
People in Bridlington have said: "It's appalling. Me and my three children are left without a dentist. I've tried Scarborough, Hull, Beverley and Driffield. Nobody will take any NHS patients, it's private only."
"I can't get a dentist to save my life. If I go private it's going to cost me an absolute fortune. It costs something like ÂŁ40-ÂŁ50 just for a cleaning."
"I moved down from Coventry last May and I'm still using my dentist in Coventry because I can't get a dentist up here."
Dr. Anthony Clarke, Chair of Bridlington Health Forum, said: "People are concerned about a lack of services in the hospital and the process of centralisation of services away from Bridlington over many years. They're concerned about good access to GP surgeries and we used to have six surgeries but this has been re-organised into two large surgeries.
"We now have one surgery with 15,000 patients and the second with 26,000 patients. We're going through a process of great change and as a forum, we're trying to monitor this and patient experience.
"I think we're down to about three NHS dentists. We have thousands of people unable to access NHS dentistry. Private dentists locally are completely full up and we've heard stories of people having to travel to West Yorkshire, Middlesbrough or Hull.
"I'm concerned for the thousands of people who can't get access locally. I'm concerned for probably hundreds of children who are getting inadequate dental health prevention treatment. We're just storing up massive problems for the future with dental extraction and children under anesthetic.
"We have the GP services which are very much under pressure at the moment. We have an Urgent Treatment Centre and we are finding that many patients are bypassing these services in Bridlington and going straight to Scarborough A&E, and that's putting Scarborough Hospital under pressure."