Dental Services: Mothers

(asked on 30th November 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will extend the maternity exemption certificate for dental care to new mothers who declined to access dental care whilst pregnant during the covid-19 outbreak.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 11th December 2020

Pregnant women and new mothers who have given birth within the last 12 months are exempt from dental charges. There are no plans to extend maternity exemptions for dental treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Urgent dental treatment continued to be provided through the first national lockdown from over 600 urgent dental centres and urgent care is available now from all high street National Health Service dental practices. All NHS dental practices are required to comply with national infection, prevention and control guidance and personal protective equipment requirements to ensure the safe provision of care to patients.

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