Dental Services: Asylum
(asked on 2nd November 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what support his Department provides to help asylum seekers access dental care on the NHS.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 9th November 2021
Asylum seekers can access National Health Service dental care from any NHS dental practice.
Patients, including asylum seekers, can contact NHS England’s Customer Contact Centre for assistance where they are unable to access a dentist or NHS 111 if seeking urgent care. Proof of address is not needed to access an NHS dentist. There is also no requirement for a patient to provide photo identification or proof of immigration status to access NHS dentistry.