Between a chosen candidate and a working dentist sits a stack of registration, visa, indemnity and compliance steps that most practice owners would rather never touch. Dentello handles all of it. Visa, GDC and NHS registration, indemnity, compliance and everything in between, run in parallel and managed for you, so that you never have to worry about compliance and your dentist is ready to treat patients from day one.
Sourcing a dentist means nothing if they never get cleared to work. Our record is in completion: dentists who started, registered and stayed.
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A dentist you have chosen still cannot generate activity until activation is complete. Managing it well protects:
Approve the dentist and confirm the role and start window.
Coordinates sponsorship, visa, GDC, NHS numbers, indemnity and onboarding in parallel, and reports a realistic first-day date.
Activation is everything that turns a chosen dentist into a working one: the sponsorship licence, the Skilled Worker visa, GDC and NHS registration, the NHS performer and list numbers, relocation and onboarding. Sourcing finds the dentist. Activation makes it legal and practical for them to treat your patients.
Yes, completely. Visa, sponsor licence, GDC and NHS registration, indemnity and compliance are all handled by Dentello, so you do not have to navigate any of it. Where regulated immigration advice is required, it is provided by appropriately authorised advisers.
Run sequentially, activation can take many months, because each step waits for the last to finish. We open the visa, GDC and NHS pathways at the same time, which removes the dead time between them and gets a dentist treating patients far sooner.
Yes. We support securing and maintaining the Skilled Worker sponsor licence and the compliance duties that come with it. Where regulated immigration advice is required, that is provided by appropriately authorised advisers.
Yes. We do not consider activation complete until the dentist is GDC and NHS registered and legally cleared to treat patients. That is the standard for every dentist we place.
A dentist cannot treat patients without professional indemnity in place. We arrange the dentist’s indemnity cover for them as part of activation, so it is confirmed before their first day rather than left to chance.
Yes. Activation covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The NHS registration steps differ by country, and we manage the correct pathway for wherever the practice is based.
Tell us about the role and the dentist you want to bring on. We will manage the activation from visa to first day. No commitment, no upfront fee.
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