20/10/2025
Dental Issues 🦷🪥
If you’re in pain or experiencing an urgent dental issue, NHS urgent dental appointments are now available across Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent.
As part of the government’s national to deliver 700,000 additional urgent dental appointments, the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Integrated Care Board (ICB) is expanding access to urgent dental care in your local area.
What this means?
🔹 Over 16,000 new urgent dental appointments will be made available each year across Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent
🔸 The new appointments will be provided in addition to existing NHS urgent dental care services.
These urgent slots are reserved for patients in need of immediate care, suggested as;
🔹 Severe dental pain or swelling
🔸 Infections or dental trauma
🔹 Bleeding or urgent post-treatment issues
You’ll be signposted to available appointments by contacting the Staffordshire & Stoke on Trent Advice Line on 0300 123 0981
Appointments are offered based on clinical need and availability at local dental practices who have signed up to provide addidional urgent care slots.