Chandlers Lane Dental Practice Ltd
52 Front Street, Brampton, Cumbria, CA8 1NT
nhs.uk reports: Accepting NHS: children only (2026-08-29)
Dentist Alston
There is no dental practice in Alston — nhs.uk's find-a-dentist service lists none in the town. Here's where the nearest tracked practices actually are, and the urgent route that works from Alston regardless.
Alston is England's highest market town and its most dentally remote: nhs.uk's nearest listing of any kind is over the Northumberland border in Haltwhistle (children only at our last check, and outside this register). Within Cumbria, Brampton and Penrith hold the nearest tracked practices — the A686 to Penrith and the A689 to Brampton are the two roads that matter. Alston and the fells east fall under the North Cumbria UDAC system: 111 first.
The nearest practices to Alston
Distances are straight-line, labelled approx. — roads in this county bend.
approx. 15 miles · Brampton
approx. 16 miles · Penrith
Sehar Hanif
Unit 5 Mereside, Greenbank Road, Eden Business Park, Penrith, CA11 9FB
No NHS status listed on nhs.uk (checked 2026-08-29)
approx. 16 miles · Penrith
Stricklandgate Dental Practice
Stricklandgate, Penrith, CA11 7NH
No NHS status listed on nhs.uk (checked 2026-08-29)
approx. 16 miles · Penrith
mydentist, Gloucester Yard, Penrith
10 Great Dockray, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 7DE
nhs.uk reports: Accepting NHS patients (2026-08-29)
approx. 16 miles · Penrith
Victoria Road Dental Practice
9 Victoria Road, Penrith, Cumbria, CA11 8HR
No NHS status listed on nhs.uk (checked 2026-08-29)
Emergency dentist in Alston
Call North Cumbria Dental Direct on 01228 603900.
Monday to Friday, 8am–5pm. This is the booking line for the urgent dental access centres — you do not need to be registered with a dentist.
Outside those hours, call 111 — free, 24 hours.
NHS 111 triages dental problems around the clock, and is the out-of-hours route in both halves of the county.
Urgent NHS treatment costs £27.90 — one charge, whatever the urgent treatment is.
Where the centres are
Carlisle Urgent Dental Access Centre
Cumbria Health — 4 Wavell Drive, Carlisle CA1 2SE
Whitehaven Urgent Dental Access Centre
S J Smith & Associates — 3 Scotch Street, Whitehaven CA28 7BL
9am–5pm Monday to Friday
Neither centre provides routine dental care — they deal with the urgent problem and send you back to a general practice for anything else.
The Whitehaven centre is hosted at S J Smith & Associates, which is also a general practice in this register. Being seen there urgently is not the same as being taken on as an NHS patient.
Why so few NHS dentists?
NHS dental contracts fund a fixed amount of treatment per year — commissioned to cover roughly 60% of the population, stretching to nearer 50% with post-Covid demand — and none of that funding lands in Alston itself. When a nearby practice has delivered its contracted activity, its NHS list closes regardless of demand. Source: NHS Lancashire & South Cumbria ICB, dentistry pages.
What a dentist costs
NHS charges are national — the same at every practice above. Work out yours with the NHS charge calculator.
| Treatment | NHS | Private guide range |
|---|---|---|
| Check-up | Band 1 · £27.90 | £45–£61 |
| White filling | Band 2 · £76.60 | from £170 |
| Root canal | Band 2 · £76.60 | from £435 |
| Crown | Band 3 · £332.10 | from £265 |
| Dentures | Band 3 · £332.10 | from £420 |
NHS charges: 2026–27 statutory statement (HCWS1392). Private guide ranges: published Carlisle-area price lists, per-source detail in config.