22/07/2026
🦷Migrants don’t "go to the top of the waiting list for dental treatment."
We are appalled by the dangerous and inaccurate claims by Restore Britain’s Rupert Lowe MP on migrants and access to dental care, made on the Joe Rogan podcast earlier this month.
📈Today in England over 13 million people are struggling to access NHS dental care.
But migrants are NOT at the front of the queue.
But typical migrants don’t get any preferential treatment when it comes to access.
They will struggle to secure a place with an NHS dentist just as UK residents do.
💷And migrants will pay for NHS care, unless in receipt of certain benefits.
We have had to say this before to other politicians:
✂️It wasn’t migrants that slashed the dental budget by £1.5bn since 2010.
📃It wasn’t migrants that refused to fix a broken contract fuelling the exodus from the NHS.
🌍 Indeed 30% of dentists registered to practise in the UK qualified overseas.
🎓Last year more than half of the dentists joining the workforce trained abroad.
🦷Migration has kept a service that millions depend on afloat.
✂️📃We keep seeing queues outside practices and people reaching for pliers because of choices made in Westminster.
🥁 This is not the time for peddling myths or banging drums.
We need politicians to support real reform and fair funding.