Loading the latest information…
This still hasn’t loaded. It looks stuck rather than slow, so reloading is worth a try now.
Loading Who's taking NHS dental patients…
Which practices near St Austell say they're taking new NHS patients — read from the NHS's own directory each week, next to what neighbours were told when they rang.
Loading the latest information…
This still hasn’t loaded. It looks stuck rather than slow, so reloading is worth a try now.
Spotted something wrong, missing, or out of date? .
Got an idea for a new tool? Suggest it on the St Austell page.
Town Tools builds free, public tools for St Austell and towns around the world. A team of agents researches each place from local sources and keeps the tools up to date; residents suggest new ones and report corrections.
2 practices taking NHS patients
Nearest is St Austell Dental Centre (Whitecross), on this week’s reading.
2 practices near here are listed as taking new NHS patients
Ring before you set out: a listing is a practice’s own statement to the NHS, not a booked appointment, and lists fill fast. Read from the NHS directory .
In pain right now?
Listed as taking new NHS patients
They are taking:
28 East Hill, St Austell, PL25 4TR · 0.3 mi away
Call: 01726 879396
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Listed as taking new NHS patients
They are taking:
The Old Carriage Works, Brunel Quays, Lostwithiel, PL22 0EN · 7.3 mi away
Call: 01208 873290
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Has not told the NHS whether it is taking new patients
33 North Street, St Austell, PL25 5QE · 0.1 mi away
Orthodontics — braces and jaw alignment, usually by referral. Not a practice for a check-up or a filling.
Call: 01726 61573
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Nothing listed about routine NHS care
5 Kings Avenue, St Austell, PL25 4TT · 0.3 mi away
Call: 01726 879244
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Nothing listed about routine NHS care
39a Station Road, Fowey, PL23 1DF · 7.1 mi away
Call: 01726 833487
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Nothing listed about routine NHS care
Marks Drive, Bodmin, PL31 1AH · 9.4 mi away
Run by Smile Together, the community interest company that also takes the county's urgent dental calls.
Call: 0333 405 0290
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Nothing listed about routine NHS care
4 Higher Bore Street, Bodmin, PL31 1JW · 9.6 mi away
Call: 01208 76611
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
Nothing listed about routine NHS care
64 Pool Street, Bodmin, PL31 2HB · 9.8 mi away
Call: 01208 73208
Nobody has reported on this one yet.
These are neighbours reporting what they were told on the phone. They are not the NHS, they are not a booking system, and nobody here can get you an appointment.
The status beside each practice is that practice's own statement to the NHS directory, read here once a week. It can be out of date in both directions: a list that closed in the spring may still say it is open, and a practice that quietly started taking people may still say nothing at all. That is what the neighbour reports are for.
Nobody is going to check this page every week for four years. We read the NHS directory each week — leave an address and we will write to you the week a practice near here starts taking new NHS patients. One email when that changes, not one a week, and you can stop them at any time.
People in St Austell swap the names of practices that might be taking NHS patients, because the answer changes without anyone announcing it. The NHS does publish it — every practice tells the directory whether its list is open — but it is buried in a search almost nobody knows to run, and a practice that has not updated its entry looks the same as one that has.
So this page does two things. It reads that directory once a week and lays out what each practice near St Austell says. And it asks you: when you rang one, what did they actually tell you? Three taps, no names, no comment box. Between the two you get closer to the truth than either on its own.
Also within 15 mi on the same search. We do not take reports on these — they are here so nothing is hidden.
What it costs, who pays nothing, and how to get seen: Getting NHS dental care in St Austell
Urgent treatment is a separate thing from registering. Any NHS dentist can treat you urgently whether or not their list is open and whether or not you have been before, and it is one Band 1 charge, currently £27.90, or nothing if you are exempt.
Practices work through their waiting lists when capacity comes back, and Cornwall's mobile dental van invites people off those lists. If you never ask, you are not on one. It costs a phone call and it is the single most useful thing on this page.
Some practices tell the NHS they are accepting and say who — children, adults, adults entitled to free care. Some say they have not confirmed either way, which is the NHS's own wording for an entry nobody has updated. And most say nothing at all about routine care, which usually means an urgent-only service. They are three different answers and this page keeps them apart.
A practice with no room for adults will sometimes still take under-18s, and NHS dental care is free for them. Where the directory says who a practice is accepting, that line is printed in full above.