Question follow-through · 14785
Dental Services: Epilepsy
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential fiscal cost of introducing a medical exemption from NHS dental charges for the repair of teeth damaged by epileptic seizures.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 Jul 2026
- Target answer date
- 6 Jul 2026
- Answer
- 7 Jul 2026 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
1 Jul 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential fiscal cost of introducing a medical exemption from NHS dental charges for the repair of teeth damaged by epileptic seizures.
6 Jul 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
7 Jul 2026
Answer published
NHS England's Dental Record Keeping Standards states that every clinical record should include the patient's presenting complaint and diagnosis, with the diagnosis expected to include the underlying cause. These standards apply to the recording of dental ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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4 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to ensure integrated care boards commission nabiximols in line with NICE guideline NG144.
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