Hospital Dental Clinic (FOI)

​​Request 697778665

Can General Practitioners refer to the Hospital Dental clinic?

Can they ask for patients to have rotten teeth extracted on patients with terrible dentition?

Can the Dental department legally refuse for such patients to be seen?

Can they legally insist that patients that cannot afford dental care to be forced to see a community dentist to get a referral for the same, despite financial constraints?

Response

Details of referral routes available and eligibility for treatment through Health and Care Jersey’s (HCJ’s) Dental Department can be found on www.gov.je at the following link:

Dental department at the General Hospital

HCJ’s Elective Access to Treatment Policy is published on www.gov.je, as linked below:

Elective Access to Treatment Policy

As information is available elsewhere, Article 23 of the Freedom of Information (Jersey) Law 2011 has been applied.

Information about government-funded financial assistance available to help towards the cost of dental treatment for adults in Jersey, including Special Payments and Pension Plus schemes, is also available on the Government of Jersey website:

Special payments: help with emergency costs​

Article applied

Article 23 - Information accessible to applicant by other means

(1) Information is absolutely exempt information if it is reasonably available to the applicant, otherwise than under this Law, whether or not free of charge.

(2) A scheduled public authority that refuses an application for information on this ground must make reasonable efforts to inform the applicant where the applicant may obtain the information.​