Public Dental Service

The Public Dental Service which provides dental care from The Balfour and Garson Dental Clinic are a small team and are currently facing unexpected staffing shortages. In order to allow the service to continue to provide urgent dental care, we are having to cancel some routine appointments over the next 2 weeks. If your appointment is being postponed, you will be contacted directly. 

Steven Johnston, Dental Director at NHS Orkney said: “I would like to apologise in advance for the disruption this may cause and would ask you to please be patient and understanding with us while we are in this period of staff shortages. The Dental department are aware that a number of patients have already had appointments rearranged recently and again, we apologise for this.”

Unfortunately, in addition, we continue to experience a proportion of patients not turning up for appointments. If you have an appointment coming up which you are unable to attend, please contact us by phone (888258 or 850658) to let us know so that the space can be reallocated to another patient. We understand circumstances can change at short notice but please do still let us know if you can’t attend.