Between the dentist you choose and the dentist treating your patients sit five regulatory gates - GDC, sponsorship, visa, NHS numbers, indemnity. Most practices queue them one by one and lose months. We open every gate at once.
Click a gate. This is the machinery most practices never want to touch again - and never have to.
Tell us about the dentist you have in mind - real or hypothetical - and see exactly which gates apply and how we run them.
Run one after another, every gate waits for the one before it - and the dead time between them is where months disappear. We open the GDC, immigration and NHS pathways on day one and run them side by side.
Illustrative sequencing - timelines vary by dentist and route. The principle doesn't: parallel pathways remove the dead time, and we time the visa so arrival lands when the NHS number is ready.
The NHS side of activation changes at every border. Pick your country.
None of these are exotic. They happen to sensible practices every month - because nobody owns the whole line.
Interview and approve the dentistWe never place without your sign-off.
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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 through to compliant and ready to work. No commitment, no upfront fee.
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