NHSBSA figures
NHS dentists
All 5,440 dental practices in England with an NHS contract, area by area, with how many NHS patients each one has seen. Every practice links to the NHS website, which shows whether it is taking new patients.
England, people who saw an NHS dentist
- Adults, 2 years to June 2026
- 40.0%
- Children, 1 year to June 2026
- 58.3%
Each area page has its own figures beside these.
All regions and areas
Open an NHS England region to see its areas. Each area page lists its NHS dental practices, the ones that see the most NHS patients first.
East of England
575 NHS dental practices
575 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 46 areas, A to Z.
- Babergh, 9 NHS dental practices
- Basildon, 20 NHS dental practices
- Bedford, 19 NHS dental practices
- Braintree, 16 NHS dental practices
- Breckland, 5 NHS dental practices
- Brentwood, 7 NHS dental practices
- Broadland, 9 NHS dental practices
- Broxbourne, 13 NHS dental practices
- Cambridge, 14 NHS dental practices
- Castle Point, 8 NHS dental practices
- Central Bedfordshire, 25 NHS dental practices
- Chelmsford, 15 NHS dental practices
- Colchester, 24 NHS dental practices
- Dacorum, 21 NHS dental practices
- East Cambridgeshire, 4 NHS dental practices
- East Hertfordshire, 12 NHS dental practices
- East Suffolk, 18 NHS dental practices
- Epping Forest, 15 NHS dental practices
- Fenland, 5 NHS dental practices
- Great Yarmouth, 10 NHS dental practices
- Harlow, 6 NHS dental practices
- Hertsmere, 17 NHS dental practices
- Huntingdonshire, 12 NHS dental practices
- Ipswich, 16 NHS dental practices
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk, 9 NHS dental practices
- Luton, 13 NHS dental practices
- Maldon, 6 NHS dental practices
- Mid Suffolk, 5 NHS dental practices
- Milton Keynes, 19 NHS dental practices
- North Hertfordshire, 18 NHS dental practices
- North Norfolk, 7 NHS dental practices
- Norwich, 16 NHS dental practices
- Peterborough, 13 NHS dental practices
- Rochford, 4 NHS dental practices
- South Cambridgeshire, 11 NHS dental practices
- South Norfolk, 10 NHS dental practices
- Southend-on-Sea, 16 NHS dental practices
- St Albans, 17 NHS dental practices
- Stevenage, 10 NHS dental practices
- Tendring, 13 NHS dental practices
- Three Rivers, 11 NHS dental practices
- Thurrock, 16 NHS dental practices
- Uttlesford, 5 NHS dental practices
- Watford, 12 NHS dental practices
- Welwyn Hatfield, 12 NHS dental practices
- West Suffolk, 12 NHS dental practices
London
1,008 NHS dental practices
1,008 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 33 areas, A to Z.
- Barking and Dagenham, 18 NHS dental practices
- Barnet, 47 NHS dental practices
- Bexley, 25 NHS dental practices
- Brent, 50 NHS dental practices
- Bromley, 39 NHS dental practices
- Camden, 34 NHS dental practices
- City of London, 1 NHS dental practice
- Croydon, 47 NHS dental practices
- Ealing, 42 NHS dental practices
- Enfield, 37 NHS dental practices
- Greenwich, 32 NHS dental practices
- Hackney, 26 NHS dental practices
- Hammersmith and Fulham, 25 NHS dental practices
- Haringey, 45 NHS dental practices
- Harrow, 36 NHS dental practices
- Havering, 24 NHS dental practices
- Hillingdon, 35 NHS dental practices
- Hounslow, 36 NHS dental practices
- Islington, 20 NHS dental practices
- Kensington and Chelsea, 18 NHS dental practices
- Kingston upon Thames, 24 NHS dental practices
- Lambeth, 32 NHS dental practices
- Lewisham, 29 NHS dental practices
- Merton, 20 NHS dental practices
- Newham, 27 NHS dental practices
- Redbridge, 38 NHS dental practices
- Richmond upon Thames, 18 NHS dental practices
- Southwark, 28 NHS dental practices
- Sutton, 28 NHS dental practices
- Tower Hamlets, 27 NHS dental practices
- Waltham Forest, 25 NHS dental practices
- Wandsworth, 38 NHS dental practices
- Westminster, 37 NHS dental practices
Midlands
990 NHS dental practices
990 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 65 areas, A to Z.
- Amber Valley, 7 NHS dental practices
- Ashfield, 6 NHS dental practices
- Bassetlaw, 8 NHS dental practices
- Birmingham, 117 NHS dental practices
- Blaby, 8 NHS dental practices
- Bolsover, 3 NHS dental practices
- Boston, 5 NHS dental practices
- Bromsgrove, 13 NHS dental practices
- Broxtowe, 9 NHS dental practices
- Cannock Chase, 10 NHS dental practices
- Charnwood, 17 NHS dental practices
- Chesterfield, 12 NHS dental practices
- Coventry, 29 NHS dental practices
- Derby, 28 NHS dental practices
- Derbyshire Dales, 8 NHS dental practices
- Dudley, 40 NHS dental practices
- East Lindsey, 10 NHS dental practices
- East Staffordshire, 12 NHS dental practices
- Erewash, 9 NHS dental practices
- Gedling, 14 NHS dental practices
- Harborough, 9 NHS dental practices
- Herefordshire, 13 NHS dental practices
- High Peak, 7 NHS dental practices
- Hinckley and Bosworth, 8 NHS dental practices
- Leicester, 47 NHS dental practices
- Lichfield, 9 NHS dental practices
- Lincoln, 11 NHS dental practices
- Malvern Hills, 6 NHS dental practices
- Mansfield, 9 NHS dental practices
- Melton, 4 NHS dental practices
- Newark and Sherwood, 9 NHS dental practices
- Newcastle-under-Lyme, 13 NHS dental practices
- North East Derbyshire, 8 NHS dental practices
- North Kesteven, 4 NHS dental practices
- North Northamptonshire, 26 NHS dental practices
- North Warwickshire, 7 NHS dental practices
- North West Leicestershire, 8 NHS dental practices
- Nottingham, 35 NHS dental practices
- Nuneaton and Bedworth, 9 NHS dental practices
- Oadby and Wigston, 6 NHS dental practices
- Redditch, 9 NHS dental practices
- Rugby, 9 NHS dental practices
- Rushcliffe, 14 NHS dental practices
- Rutland, 5 NHS dental practices
- Sandwell, 38 NHS dental practices
- Shropshire, 37 NHS dental practices
- Solihull, 20 NHS dental practices
- South Derbyshire, 6 NHS dental practices
- South Holland, 6 NHS dental practices
- South Kesteven, 9 NHS dental practices
- South Staffordshire, 12 NHS dental practices
- Stafford, 14 NHS dental practices
- Staffordshire Moorlands, 10 NHS dental practices
- Stoke-on-Trent, 19 NHS dental practices
- Stratford-on-Avon, 17 NHS dental practices
- Tamworth, 6 NHS dental practices
- Telford and Wrekin, 21 NHS dental practices
- Walsall, 26 NHS dental practices
- Warwick, 14 NHS dental practices
- West Lindsey, 4 NHS dental practices
- West Northamptonshire, 30 NHS dental practices
- Wolverhampton, 24 NHS dental practices
- Worcester, 9 NHS dental practices
- Wychavon, 8 NHS dental practices
- Wyre Forest, 10 NHS dental practices
North East and Yorkshire
758 NHS dental practices
758 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 28 areas, A to Z.
- Barnsley, 27 NHS dental practices
- Bradford, 49 NHS dental practices
- Calderdale, 21 NHS dental practices
- County Durham, 40 NHS dental practices
- Cumberland, 24 NHS dental practices
- Darlington, 10 NHS dental practices
- Doncaster, 35 NHS dental practices
- East Riding of Yorkshire, 29 NHS dental practices
- Gateshead, 20 NHS dental practices
- Hartlepool, 7 NHS dental practices
- Kingston upon Hull, 20 NHS dental practices
- Kirklees, 46 NHS dental practices
- Leeds, 73 NHS dental practices
- Middlesbrough, 8 NHS dental practices
- Newcastle upon Tyne, 31 NHS dental practices
- North East Lincolnshire, 12 NHS dental practices
- North Lincolnshire, 13 NHS dental practices
- North Tyneside, 20 NHS dental practices
- North Yorkshire, 58 NHS dental practices
- Northumberland, 26 NHS dental practices
- Redcar and Cleveland, 15 NHS dental practices
- Rotherham, 25 NHS dental practices
- Sheffield, 59 NHS dental practices
- South Tyneside, 12 NHS dental practices
- Stockton-on-Tees, 19 NHS dental practices
- Sunderland, 17 NHS dental practices
- Wakefield, 26 NHS dental practices
- York, 16 NHS dental practices
North West
745 NHS dental practices
745 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 34 areas, A to Z.
- Blackburn with Darwen, 15 NHS dental practices
- Blackpool, 8 NHS dental practices
- Bolton, 25 NHS dental practices
- Burnley, 9 NHS dental practices
- Bury, 22 NHS dental practices
- Cheshire East, 56 NHS dental practices
- Cheshire West and Chester, 40 NHS dental practices
- Chorley, 12 NHS dental practices
- Fylde, 7 NHS dental practices
- Halton, 11 NHS dental practices
- Hyndburn, 11 NHS dental practices
- Knowsley, 20 NHS dental practices
- Lancaster, 10 NHS dental practices
- Liverpool, 42 NHS dental practices
- Manchester, 61 NHS dental practices
- Oldham, 29 NHS dental practices
- Pendle, 16 NHS dental practices
- Preston, 12 NHS dental practices
- Ribble Valley, 7 NHS dental practices
- Rochdale, 20 NHS dental practices
- Rossendale, 5 NHS dental practices
- Salford, 26 NHS dental practices
- Sefton, 30 NHS dental practices
- South Ribble, 10 NHS dental practices
- St. Helens, 21 NHS dental practices
- Stockport, 37 NHS dental practices
- Tameside, 21 NHS dental practices
- Trafford, 29 NHS dental practices
- Warrington, 20 NHS dental practices
- West Lancashire, 14 NHS dental practices
- Westmorland and Furness, 25 NHS dental practices
- Wigan, 30 NHS dental practices
- Wirral, 33 NHS dental practices
- Wyre, 11 NHS dental practices
South East
886 NHS dental practices
886 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 63 areas, A to Z.
- Adur, 7 NHS dental practices
- Arun, 14 NHS dental practices
- Ashford, 11 NHS dental practices
- Basingstoke and Deane, 15 NHS dental practices
- Bracknell Forest, 12 NHS dental practices
- Brighton and Hove, 36 NHS dental practices
- Buckinghamshire, 58 NHS dental practices
- Canterbury, 15 NHS dental practices
- Cherwell, 11 NHS dental practices
- Chichester, 13 NHS dental practices
- Crawley, 14 NHS dental practices
- Dartford, 13 NHS dental practices
- Dover, 7 NHS dental practices
- East Hampshire, 6 NHS dental practices
- Eastbourne, 11 NHS dental practices
- Eastleigh, 11 NHS dental practices
- Elmbridge, 15 NHS dental practices
- Epsom and Ewell, 10 NHS dental practices
- Fareham, 12 NHS dental practices
- Folkestone and Hythe, 11 NHS dental practices
- Gosport, 9 NHS dental practices
- Gravesham, 11 NHS dental practices
- Guildford, 11 NHS dental practices
- Hart, 12 NHS dental practices
- Hastings, 12 NHS dental practices
- Havant, 16 NHS dental practices
- Horsham, 19 NHS dental practices
- Isle of Wight, 9 NHS dental practices
- Lewes, 13 NHS dental practices
- Maidstone, 18 NHS dental practices
- Medway, 29 NHS dental practices
- Mid Sussex, 15 NHS dental practices
- Mole Valley, 9 NHS dental practices
- New Forest, 21 NHS dental practices
- Oxford, 17 NHS dental practices
- Portsmouth, 17 NHS dental practices
- Reading, 16 NHS dental practices
- Reigate and Banstead, 13 NHS dental practices
- Rother, 11 NHS dental practices
- Runnymede, 9 NHS dental practices
- Rushmoor, 9 NHS dental practices
- Sevenoaks, 14 NHS dental practices
- Slough, 14 NHS dental practices
- South Oxfordshire, 15 NHS dental practices
- Southampton, 19 NHS dental practices
- Spelthorne, 9 NHS dental practices
- Surrey Heath, 14 NHS dental practices
- Swale, 13 NHS dental practices
- Tandridge, 11 NHS dental practices
- Test Valley, 6 NHS dental practices
- Thanet, 7 NHS dental practices
- Tonbridge and Malling, 10 NHS dental practices
- Tunbridge Wells, 16 NHS dental practices
- Vale of White Horse, 13 NHS dental practices
- Waverley, 13 NHS dental practices
- Wealden, 19 NHS dental practices
- West Berkshire, 18 NHS dental practices
- West Oxfordshire, 12 NHS dental practices
- Winchester, 8 NHS dental practices
- Windsor and Maidenhead, 22 NHS dental practices
- Woking, 13 NHS dental practices
- Wokingham, 12 NHS dental practices
- Worthing, 10 NHS dental practices
South West
478 NHS dental practices
478 NHS dental practices with an NHS contract in 27 areas, A to Z.
- Bath and North East Somerset, 23 NHS dental practices
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, 39 NHS dental practices
- Bristol, 47 NHS dental practices
- Cheltenham, 9 NHS dental practices
- Cornwall, 43 NHS dental practices
- Cotswold, 11 NHS dental practices
- Dorset, 35 NHS dental practices
- East Devon, 12 NHS dental practices
- Exeter, 9 NHS dental practices
- Forest of Dean, 8 NHS dental practices
- Gloucester, 10 NHS dental practices
- Isles of Scilly, 0 NHS dental practices
- Mid Devon, 6 NHS dental practices
- North Devon, 6 NHS dental practices
- North Somerset, 15 NHS dental practices
- Plymouth, 16 NHS dental practices
- Somerset, 50 NHS dental practices
- South Gloucestershire, 22 NHS dental practices
- South Hams, 9 NHS dental practices
- Stroud, 10 NHS dental practices
- Swindon, 14 NHS dental practices
- Teignbridge, 9 NHS dental practices
- Tewkesbury, 4 NHS dental practices
- Torbay, 12 NHS dental practices
- Torridge, 7 NHS dental practices
- West Devon, 5 NHS dental practices
- Wiltshire, 47 NHS dental practices
What is shown here?
Taking new patients. Whether a practice is taking new NHS patients changes week to week and is not in the open data we use. Each practice sets it on the NHS website, so every practice here links there. You can also search NHS Find a dentist straight away.
The order. The practices that have seen the most NHS patients come first: adults in the last 2 years and children in the last year, added together. That is how much NHS work a practice does, not a grade of its care.
The area figures. People are counted where they live, whichever NHS dentist they went to. Adults are counted over 2 years and children over 1, as the NHS counts them.
A practice is listed when it holds an NHS contract for general dental care this financial year. Practices that only offer private care, and NHS orthodontists, are not listed. The NHS guide How to find an NHS dentist explains the rest.
Common questions about NHS dentists
- How do I find an NHS dentist taking new patients?
Pick your area, then check the practices on the NHS website: each practice says there whether it is taking new NHS patients, for adults and for children. You can contact any NHS dentist and ask for an appointment, and some practices keep a waiting list. If you cannot find one, contact your local integrated care board (ICB): it runs dental services in your area.
- Do I register with a dentist like I do with a GP?
No. A practice may ask you to fill in a form at your first visit, but that does not mean it will always see you on the NHS. Ask for an NHS appointment each time.
- What if I need a dentist urgently?
Any NHS dentist can offer you urgent treatment, even if they are not taking new patients or you have not been before. Phone a practice and ask for an urgent appointment, or call NHS 111.
- How much does an NHS dentist cost?
Most adults pay one of three charges for a course of treatment: £27.90 (Band 1, a check-up), £76.60 (Band 2, fillings and extractions) or £332.10 (Band 3, crowns and dentures). Urgent treatment is £27.90. Children under 18 and some adults pay nothing.
- Why are the practices in this order?
The practices that have seen the most NHS patients come first: adults in the last 2 years and children in the last year, added together. That is how much NHS work a practice does, not a grade of its care. The figures come from NHSBSA, the NHS body that handles dentists' NHS claims, for July 2026.
- How many people see an NHS dentist?
In England, 40.0% of adults saw an NHS dentist in the 2 years to June 2026, and 58.3% of children in the year to June 2026. Each area page has its own figures.
Source: NHS Business Services Authority, English Contractor Monthly General Dental Activity (July 2026, published 15 October 2026) and NHS Dental Statistics for England (to June 2026, published 8 October 2026); practice names and addresses from the NHS Organisation Data Service. NHSBSA Copyright 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data updated
The month each source’s data runs to, and when its publisher released it.
- NHS dental contract activity: (published 15 October 2026)
- NHS Dental Statistics for England, patients seen: (published 8 October 2026)
Sources
- NHSBSA Copyright 2026. NHS Business Services Authority, English Contractor Monthly General Dental Activity, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence
- NHSBSA Copyright 2026. NHS Business Services Authority, NHS Dental Statistics for England 2025/26 (patients seen by patient location), Open Government Licence v3.0.