Expat healthcare membership in Dubai
The first year in Dubai is when healthcare is most fragmented. You do not yet have a doctor, your records are in another country, your insurance is new, and the default is to visit whichever clinic is nearest when something goes wrong.
Setting up primary care in your first month
Choose one clinic to hold your record, rather than defaulting to whichever is nearest at the time. Bring or request a summary from your previous GP, including diagnoses, medications, allergies, vaccinations and recent results.
Ask specifically whether you will see the same doctor each time. In Dubai this is the exception, not the default, and it is the single factor that most affects the quality of your care over the following years.
Membership and insurance are different things
UAE law requires residents to hold health insurance. Membership is not insurance and does not replace it — it covers day-to-day primary care, not hospital admission, surgery, emergency treatment or most specialist care.
Most members keep insurance for those events and use membership for the care they actually use week to week: consultations, testing, monitoring and prevention.
Why British-trained matters to expatriate families
Aafiyah's GPs are British-trained and DHA-licensed, so consultations follow UK general-practice standards while being fully licensed for Dubai practice.
In practice that shows up in referral thresholds, how testing is justified and how decisions are made with you rather than for you — the differences expatriate families notice first.
- Clinicians
- British-trained, DHA-licensed GPs
- Annual fee
- AED 17,000 per year
- Insurance
- Still required by UAE law — membership is not insurance
- Records
- Bring a summary from your previous GP
- Languages
- English and Arabic
- Clinic
- Unit G09, Churchill Executive Towers, Business Bay
Membership is not health insurance and does not replace it. Full inclusions and exclusions are published in the membership terms.
This page sits under the Aafiyah Platinum membership programme. Read the membership terms or start the membership application.
Questions people ask
I have just moved to Dubai — how do I set up a GP?
Register with a clinic that will keep one doctor with you, and bring any records or medication lists from your previous country. Platinum is designed for this: one named British-trained GP builds your Dubai record from the start.
Are Aafiyah's doctors British-trained?
Aafiyah's GPs are British-trained and DHA-licensed, so consultations follow UK general-practice standards while being fully licensed for Dubai. That matters most to expatriate families who want a familiar approach to referral thresholds, testing and shared decision-making.
Talk to the membership team
Ask what membership does and does not cover before you apply. No medical details are needed to start the conversation.
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