Clinic Setup and Licensing in Dubai

Choosing Your Location

Your clinic needs a trade licence for the business and a medical licence for the facility. The medical licence comes from DHA in both locations, so the choice affects the trade licence, the premises and how your patients reach you. In the first planning meeting, we compare both options for your specialties, patients and budget, so you decide with a clear view of cost and timing.

Defining Your Clinical Services

The services you plan to offer determine your facility category, and with it the rooms, staff and equipment your clinic needs. Before design begins, we confirm your services and the facility category with you. This gives you a sound basis for the application, the layout and your budget, and reduces changes once fit-out starts.

Designing Your Clinic and Securing Approval

DHA approves the layout and engineering drawings before fit-out can start. The layout must suit your services, with the rooms, access and building services they require. Our team prepares the drawings, manages the submission and addresses authority comments until the design is approved, so construction starts on approved plans.

Preventing Delays and Extra Costs

• Review the premises before signing a lease. The unit must fit the rooms, access and services your specialties need. We assess it before you commit, so you avoid a redesign or a second lease.
• Secure approval before starting fit-out. Work built before DHA approves the drawings often has to be redone. We coordinate approvals so the build follows the approved plans.
• Begin staff licensing early. Every doctor and nurse must be licensed individually before opening. We handle DHA professional licensing for your team alongside the facility application.

If your project has stalled or did not pass an inspection, we review the approvals, premises and documents, then set out the steps needed to complete licensing and open.

Outside Dubai, a different authority licenses your clinic: the Department of Health (DOH) in Abu Dhabi, Sharjah Health Authority in Sharjah, and MOHAP in the Northern Emirates. See healthcare facility licensing in Abu Dhabi.

Opening several specialties under one licence? See medical centre and polyclinic setup. Need the build as well? We deliver medical facility fit-out.