The phrase "a wider problem and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a broader issue that is related to a specific topic or situation.
Example: "The issue of climate change is not just about rising temperatures; it is a wider problem and affects biodiversity, agriculture, and human health."
Alternatives: "a larger issue that" or "a more extensive concern that".
That British films won't, or can't, be launched on to British audiences is part of a wider problem, and one that is actually much more important to legions of increasingly antsy UK film audiences.
When the Healthcare Commission's damning report into problems at Stafford Hospital was published in 2009 the then Labour government dismissed concerns about a wider problem and laid blame at the door of the local management.
The Shell boss said divestment was a simplistic solution to a wider problem and could delay adopting more meaningful policy options: "I fundamentally do not believe that holds a business rationale".
Despite the problems, Platini said corruption was a wider problem and not just a matter for football and Fifa.
Commenting on the latest arrests, Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said: "There have been some who've said this is a one-off case but I have consistently said I believe it to be a wider problem and that's why I am pleased to see the police acting swiftly.
It seemed to me that my doctor's cluelessness might be symptomatic of a wider problem, and a report published in 2013 by the All Party Parliamentary Group on Skin (APPGS) confirms that many patients felt that treatment from doctors regarding their skin was totally inadequate.
Even the E.P.A. acknowledged that more tests are needed to assess whether there is a wide problem, and stopped short of advising all passengers not to drink the water.
"This aggressive selling of Germany and France is worrying, and shows that this is a wider problem...France and Germany are massively out-selling the PIIGS [Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Greece, Spain, the countries at the centre of the debt crisis]," he said.
"The Facebook/Cambridge Analytica revelations are still under investigation in Europe and America, but they are only the tip of the iceberg, a sign of a much wider problem and a symptom of many more problems still unnoticed," writes Giovanni Buttarelli in a blog entitled: The urgent case for a new ePrivacy law.
The long saga of Khirbet Susiya is symbolic of a wider problem of demolition and displacement affecting unrecognised villages in both the occupied Palestinian territories and Bedouin communities in Israel itself.
The former Downing Street aide, who left in 2012, wrote in the Times: "David Cameron's resignation honours list is a symptom of a wider problem: our corrupt and decaying democracy.
