No MATB1 form

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Hi,

I gave birth to my baby 7 months ago and I never once received a MATB1 form throughout my pregnancy. To be honest I didn’t even know what it was until recently, I’m a rather young mum and never knew I needed it. Once I did, I stupidly assumed I wasn’t given it because I wasn’t in employment prior to getting so wouldn’t have needed it to show an employer and I wasn’t overly fussed due to being in Wales where prescriptions are free anyway.

Anyways I have an abscess which cocodamol isn’t touching the pain of and I am in so much agony it’s unreal. My mum has told me to call 111 and try and get an emergency dentist appointment but I don’t have a Matb1 form to take with me to show I’m exempt from treatment and I have no idea how expensive it is but would’ve preferred to have got it free knowing I’m entitled with a baby under 1 plus I had hyperemesis gravidium during pregnancy with my LG.

Does anyone know how this sort of thing works? Will they ask for it? Does my daughters birth certificate count and if not can I claim back if I do have to pay if I manage to get a certificate next week?

You should have received a maternity excemption certificate, might have been emailed to you.

MatB1 is not the exemption form, it's the one given to employers to sort out leave and pay. The FW8 form is the exemption one.

It’s not the MatB1 form you need as others have said, it’s the Maternity Exemption. Mine got emailed to me after my 8 week booking appointment so maybe have a look to see if it’s in there x

Take your babies birth certificate as proof. It’s free for up to a year postnatal. It has your name and the date you gave birth on it. It will be fine.

You would still need to find an NHS dentist to do the treatment though. Private dentists won't treat for free even with the exemption certificate? Do you have an NHS dentist? I don't like your chances of finding one if not.

Random extra question mark there!

Do you actually have a dentist? You need to focus on that first before worrying about paying for it. They're not easy to come by for NHS.

Hi
ive recently had nhs dental treatment (baby 6 months old) and all they asked for was babies DOB nothing else

Ahh thank you I thought the Matb1 was what I needed, obviously I knew less than I thought 🤣 everything at my doctors is done on paper but I definitely didn’t get one :/ xx

I rang the dental side of 111 for my abscess and they said they will contact me within 72 hrs x

ahh this is reassuring thank you so much!! my baby is a similar age, about to be 7mo next week :) xx

I rang the OOH’s and they said they’d contact me within 72 hrs as an abscess is considered needing urgent treatment 🤷🏼‍♀️ but I’m aware you still have to pay NHS prices unless exempt

Thank you I was hoping her birth certificate would suffice!

Oh I had no idea thank you so much!

I needed to take my MATB1 form to the dentist (I’m in Staffordshire, England) to be entitled to free NHS care a few weeks ago. However they didn’t hand it out at antenatal appointments I had to chase the midwives for it (I’m self employed and needed it for MA) and go to fetch it from a clinic I’d been seen at on booking in originally. I rang around everywhere I’d been including maternity hospital, the clinic was the only place that would help. My midwife has been on sick for a while though so I’ve never met her and had stand in ones therefore I never had the one point of contact. If you haven’t been given your prescription exemption cert either you need to ask for that too, mine was emailed to me after 28 week pregnancy app. Try your maternity hospital main desk and see if they can point you in the right direction.

On another note, my old dentist recently closed and sent everyone to find new dentists, I looked on the NHS website for local dentists and called them all that they had recommended, none of them had space. I went onto a few local facebook groups and asked on there if anyone knew of NHS dentists taking on, and found my new dentists from there, so that might be worth trying while your waiting for them to get back to you.

Hope you get sorted x

Thank you so much for your kind comment and helpful advice, I appreciate it so much xx