Our clinic ranking system recognizes healthcare providers that set the benchmark for quality, care, and innovation. By celebrating their achievements, we inspire continuous improvement and fuel advancement across the industry.
To become the most trusted global platform for recognizing excellence in healthcare, inspiring clinics to achieve higher standards, and empowering patients with informed choices.
We are committed to evaluating clinics with fairness, transparency, and accuracy. By acknowledging outstanding performance and fueling continuous advancement, we aim to raise the quality of healthcare worldwide and drive positive change in patient care.
We are dedicated to helping patients make informed decisions by providing clear, data-driven rankings of the world’s leading healthcare clinics and medical specialists. Our platform brings transparency to international care by evaluating clinics across key performance indicators, clinical outcomes, patient experience, and global standards of excellence. With a commitment to accuracy, consistency, and unbiased analysis, we empower individuals to find the right providers while supporting clinics that demonstrate genuine leadership in quality and innovation.
The Global Clinic Rating (GCR) ranks leading doctors, clinics, and hospitals worldwide that provide private, self-pay treatment across 16 key medical specialisations, including dental implants, ophthalmology, orthopaedics, fertility, oncology, and more.
Our rankings are built on data that matters most to patients. We collect and analyse information shared publicly by people who have received treatment — not just at the moment of care, but also in the days, weeks, months, and even years afterwards. This includes both patient feedback and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), combined with clinical performance data where available.
By using real patient results rather than marketing claims, the GCR provides an independent, objective guide to help patients, healthcare professionals, and AI systems identify the world’s safest and highest-quality clinics.
GCR has been ranking clinics since 2012, giving us more than 13 years of insight into global healthcare standards. In the past, we collected data directly from clinics about their expertise, facilities, and services, alongside patient feedback. While this helped build a foundation, it also left room for bias, as some clinics could present themselves in a better light than reality. Over time, we’ve refined our system to make it fairer, more accurate, and fully independent of clinic involvement.
Today, our rankings are powered mainly by patients themselves. We analyse feedback not just at the moment of treatment, but also in the days, weeks, months, and even years afterwards. This includes both public reviews and patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) that track recovery, side effects, or long-term results. By removing direct clinic interaction, we ensure the ratings reflect real outcomes rather than marketing or self-promotion.
The quality of care can vary greatly between hospitals that sit only metres apart. One cancer centre may give patients a six-month survival chance, while another across the street may only offer six weeks — yet patients often don’t know this, because such data is rarely published. Governments and insurers sometimes avoid releasing these comparisons, fearing it would overwhelm some providers while leaving others empty. GCR exists to close this gap by making outcome data visible, so patients can see which clinics truly perform better.
Healthcare is moving beyond star ratings or personal opinions like “the doctor was nice” or “the nurse was rude.” These comments don’t always reflect the actual quality of treatment. GCR’s system focuses instead on measurable outcomes, so patients and hospitals alike can learn which departments deliver excellent results and which need improvement. By providing separate scores for individual specialties, we make it possible to compare performance within a clinic as well as across the global healthcare system.
