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"Zesty, the last-minute dental appointment booking service available in London, has extended its remit\u00A0to include other types of healthcare professionals from both private and public\u00A0practices.\r\n\r\nWhen we first caught up with Zesty's founder Lloyd Price in July last year, he said that the plan was always to take the service beyond dentistry, and beyond London where it is currently up-and-running.\r\n\r\nClearly, negotiating the agreements with providers to establish a wider\u00A0service took some time, but today Zesty is cutting the ribbon\u00A0on its platform for\u00A0booking GPs, podiatrists, physiotherapists, osteopaths and other types of healthcare provider.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nKeeping to the same strategy as its dental-only launch, Zesty\u00A0said it\u00A0has focused on keeping the appointment booking service quick and free - but that it still provides vital user\u00A0feedback and the available appointment times of individual professionals, which tend to be the key deciding factors (along with location) when choosing a provider. To ensure that customers feel comfortable, a reason for booking the appointment or symptoms are never requested as part of the process, Zesty said.\r\n\r\nThe site is fully adaptive too, so booking on-the-go from a mobile or a tablet should be no problem either.\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThrough its partnerships with private and NHS practices, Zesty says it can offer two different types of appointment: regularly bookable ones\u00A0and last-minute appointments\u00A0that had previously been booked by someone who later\u00A0cancelled.\r\n\r\nFor now, Zesty is only serving users in London, but a spokesperson for the company told TNW that there would be a &amp;quot;nationwide service rolling out later this year across England, Scotland and Wales&amp;quot;, although exactly when\u00A0hasn't been revealed.\r\n\r\n\u27A4 Zesty\r\n\r\nFeatured Image Credit - Shutterstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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