| Heading: |
Dental Services: Epilepsy |
| Question ID: |
1805214 |
| UIN: |
54203 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-05-21 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5252 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Rachel Gilmour
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Rachel Gilmour
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing medical exemptions to access NHS care for dental injuries caused as a result of epileptic seizures. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-02 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4359 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Stephen Kinnock
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| Answering Member handle: |
skinnock
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@skinnock
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| Answer text: |
There are currently no plans to extend the list of people eligible for free National Health Service dental care to include those with dental injuries caused by epileptic seizures. Free NHS dental care is available to people who meet one of the following c... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |