First Care Urgent Care - London

UDC Southwark — referenced in our directory as First Care Urgent Care London — is the London Dental Triage's dedicated NHS emergency dental access point in Southwark, set up specifically for adult patients with severe dental problems that need immediate clinical attention. The service is part of the broader 111 NHS dental triage workflow: patients call 111 or visit www.111.nhs.uk, get assessed by triage, and are referred to UDC Southwark when their case meets the urgent-care threshold. This is not a routine dental practice and does not accept walk-in appointments without referral.

The service handles only acute presentations — significant facial swelling, uncontrolled bleeding, uncontrolled dental pain, and acute dental trauma. Emergency assessments include dental X-rays and necessary tests to determine the urgency and treatment path. The clinical scope is deliberately narrow: routine treatment, denture repairs, crown or bridge recementing, and standard NHS referrals are explicitly not offered here. Patients with non-urgent needs get redirected to community dental practices or their regular dentist via the 111 triage.

If you have a dental emergency in Southwark or central London — severe swelling, uncontrolled bleeding, severe pain, or trauma — this is the NHS-funded triage access point reached via 111.

The service operates Monday through Friday from 8:45 AM to 4:30 PM, excluding Bank Holidays, which is the standard NHS daytime emergency dental window. Outside those hours patients are routed through 111 to other emergency dental cover. Searches that bring patients here include emergency dentist Southwark London, NHS dental triage 111 referral, urgent dental care for severe pain in London, dental trauma treatment in central London, and uncontrolled dental bleeding emergency dentist. The service suits adult patients in genuine dental emergency who have either been referred via 111 or whose presentation matches the acute-care criteria the service is set up to handle.