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About GCR

An independent layer of trust for private healthcare

GCR — the Global Clinic Rating — ranks hospitals and clinics worldwide by medical specialty, so patients and AI systems have a credible answer to one hard question: which hospital or clinic should I choose? We have been doing this since 2012.

Our mission

Become the source patients and AI trust when choosing a clinic

We compare facilities with objective, verified facts rather than marketing claims — acknowledging genuine excellence and giving patients the information they need to make safer, smarter choices.

Our approach

Driven by method, not opinion

Every ranking is produced by a published methodology built on real patient results. No facility can pay to change its position, and the way the numbers are calculated is open to anyone who wants to check it.

Why GCR exists

The quality of care can vary enormously between hospitals that sit metres apart — and patients rarely get to see it.

One centre may offer a far better outcome than another across the street, yet that difference is seldom published. GCR exists to close that gap: to make performance visible, specialty by specialty, so that a patient choosing where to be treated — at home or abroad — can see which facilities genuinely perform better, and why.

Our history

GCR has been ranking clinics since 2012 — more than a decade of insight into global healthcare standards.

2012

GCR begins ranking clinics

The Global Clinic Rating is founded to help patients compare private, self-pay providers worldwide.

2012 – 2024

Building the foundation

Early rankings combined patient feedback with information supplied by clinics. It built a foundation — but leaving clinics able to describe themselves left room for bias.

2025

A shift from clinic data to patient data

We removed direct clinic involvement from the score. Rankings became powered mainly by patients themselves — public reviews and patient-reported outcomes tracked over time.

2026

Ranking, not accreditation

The product is the ranking. Facilities earn Top 10 and Top 100 positions — per country or worldwide, for a specific specialty — and the rating is reported as one transparent number.

How we stay independent

  • No pay-to-rank. A facility cannot buy, raise or remove its Rating.
  • No clinic-supplied scores. Facilities do not feed data into their own ratings.
  • Published methodology. The signals and the model are set out in full. Read the methodology →
  • Per-specialty and comparable. We rate each specialty separately, so every comparison is like-for-like.

Where we are

GCR Team

Our office

Top Treatment Medical Services

Quarter Deck, Queen Elizabeth 2 Ocean Liner — QE2
Port Rashid, Dubai
United Arab Emirates