Some took a three-day inspection by people who watched real surgeries. Some took a bank transfer. Here’s how to tell the difference — and what we check before a clinic appears on JetPatient.
Not their colleague. Not a technician working under supervision. Not “the surgeon or their designee.” The person whose credentials we verified and whose name is on your quote is the person who performs your procedure — with assistants where that’s normal practice, and we’ll tell you who they are. If that ever changes, you agree to it first, in advance, in writing.
Before anything else, every clinic on JetPatient clears the same floor. There are no exceptions and no “pending” status. It isn’t impressive — it’s the legal minimum. But you’d be surprised how many clinics marketing to foreign patients don’t clear it, and it’s invisible from a website.
Issued by the health regulator in that country. Mexico’s Licencia Sanitaria, Türkiye’s Ministry ruhsat, Singapore’s HCSA licence. Every country has one, and every version means the same thing: the state has confirmed this facility may legally do what it’s doing.
Not “a doctor works there.” Your doctor, registered right now, in that country’s official register. Most countries let you check this yourself — and we link you to the page.
Malpractice or complication insurance where the jurisdiction requires it.
We sort every credential a clinic holds into four tiers. The test isn’t how famous the logo is — it’s how much work someone did before issuing it.
Credentials are assessed per site and per specialty. A hospital group’s gold-tier cardiac accreditation says nothing about its dental unit — but the logo looks identical on both pages. The highest tier in one specialty never lifts another.
We also keep clinical quality and travel logistics separate. A credential that certifies coordination and continuity of care is genuinely valuable, and it can never stand in for a clinical one.
Including the ones we think are overstated. Especially those.
An on-site survey every three years, following real patients through real care pathways. It runs eight separate programmes — hospitals, but also ambulatory care, which covers dental clinics, cosmetic surgery centres and fertility clinics.
What it doesn’t tell you: whether your surgeon is any good. It assesses the organisation, not the individual. And “JCI Certification” is a different, much narrower product from “JCI Accreditation” — the words are not interchangeable.
ISO 9001 certifies that an organisation documents a quality-management system and follows it, measured against objectives the organisation sets for itself. It contains no clinical requirements.
A clinic with ISO 9001 has good paperwork. That is honestly all you can conclude.
13485 is a standard for companies that manufacture medical devices. 45001 is about staff workplace safety.
If a clinic displays these as evidence of care quality, that tells you something about the clinic.
This one is real. It assesses whether a laboratory is technically competent — proficiency testing, measurement traceability, validated methods. It applies only to the lab, and only within the specific tests it was accredited for.
A German accreditor built for medical travel, with separate programmes for medical, dental, eye and reproductive care. Its standards are independently accredited, including its dental standards — which makes it one of the few meaningful options for a dental clinic.
Note: Temos states it cannot award accreditation to organisations in EU countries for regulatory reasons. A Czech or Hungarian clinic claiming Temos is worth a second look.
Certifies the journey — coordination, communication, continuity of care across borders. Genuinely useful, and completely separate from clinical quality.
A clinic certified this way will handle your trip well. It says nothing about the surgery.
There is no facility accreditation for hair restoration anywhere in the world. ISHRS is a paid membership organisation, not a certification body.
We’d rather tell you that than pretend the badge means more than it does. For hair transplants, judge the surgeon and the clinic’s regulatory standing — and ask who performs each step.
A paid membership category, not an accreditation. One major accreditor has 131 institutional members, and some of them present it as though it were the real thing.
ISQua accredits accrediting bodies, not clinics. No clinic can hold ISQua accreditation.
If a clinic claims it, that is a misrepresentation — and our own application form now refuses to accept it.
Every country’s system is different. Here’s what actually matters in each of ours — and the trap to avoid. Tap a country to open it.
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This works on any clinic, anywhere — including ones that have nothing to do with us.