ClinicCompare NZ

Lookup Clinic

Get the full record for one clinic by slug (e.g. "wellington-eye-centre"). Returns identity, location, contact, specialties, pricing tier, aggregate rating, and the list of practitioners on file.

List Clinics By Procedure

List clinics offering a given procedure category. Categories: lasik, dental-implants, breast-surgery, cosmetic-surgery, weight-loss-surgery, hair-transplant, appearance-medicine, dermatology, fertility-ivf, dentist, chiropractic, physiotherapy, podiatry, hearing-audiology, sleep-apnea-snoring.

Find Clinics In City

List clinics in a given NZ city across all procedure categories. Optional category filter narrows results.

Get Clinician

Get a practitioner profile by slug. Returns qualifications + specialties + the URLs to verify their registration with the relevant NZ regulator (Medical Council, Dental Council, Physio Board). HPCA Act 2003 — always verify registration before booking.

Search By Specialty

Substring search across clinic specialties + clinic name. Use for fuzzy queries like "fertility ivf wellington" or "rhinoplasty auckland".

Get Procedure Facts

Get the canonical fact-sheet for a procedure category in NZ: cost range, regulator, what it is, clinic count, and links to the cost / risk / questions pages.

Get Procedure Risks

Get the structured NZ + Australasian surgical-college risk profile for a procedure. Returns risks categorised by frequency (common / uncommon / rare / very-rare), pre-procedure checklist, red flags and when-to-call-111 criteria.

Get Procedure Cost Range

Get the NZ 2026 cost range for a procedure (low / high / unit). Always advise the user to request a written quote from the clinic.

Find Clinics By Funding

Find clinics that accept a given NZ funding path (acc | southern-cross | nib | aia | public-dhb | self-pay). Optional procedure + city filters narrow the search.

Answer Common Question

Fuzzy-match a free-text question against our corpus of 200+ NZ medical "people also ask" questions. Returns the best matching question + a NZ-specific generic answer + sibling questions.

List Questions By Category

List every PAA question in a procedure category. Use to discover what real NZ patients are asking about a topic before answering.

Find Similar

Semantic vector search across clinics + PAA questions. Returns the records whose meaning is closest to the query. Use for free-text "find me something like X" intent. Uses OpenAI text-embedding-3-small (1536-dim) cosine similarity over 281 baked vectors.

Get Clinic Reviews

Returns the YMYL-tuned AI review summary + the 5 most-recent Google reviews for a specific clinic. Reviews are unedited reviewer text with Google-attribution metadata. Use when the agent needs to surface what patients are actually saying about a clinic, not just clinic-provided copy. Returns null reviews block for the ~11 clinics without a resolved Google Place ID.

Find Similar Clinics

Find clinics most similar to a given seed clinic using semantic vector similarity. Returns up to 8 clinics ranked by cosine similarity over OpenAI text-embedding-3-small (1536-dim). Use when an agent needs "this patient liked clinic X, what else?" — the seed clinic is excluded from results. Wraps find_similar with the clinic name as the query and kind="clinic" filter.

Get Procedure Cost Breakdown

Returns the per-treatment cost breakdown for a procedure category (e.g. lasik, fertility-ivf, hair-transplant). Reads the source-of-truth procedure-cost-ranges.json (18 procedures × 95 individual treatments). Each treatment has low/high cost in NZD, unit (per eye / per cycle / per implant / etc.), notes, and city variation. Sources are cited per procedure (RACS / NZAPS / NZDA / RANZCO / RANZCOG / Te Whatu Ora). Use when a patient asks "how much does X cost in NZ?" — the response gives them a def

Compare Clinics

Side-by-side comparison of 2-5 clinics on a shared set of facts (city, category, specialties, rating, Google review count, MCNZ-verified practitioner count, AI review summary excerpt, contact channels). Use when an agent is helping a patient narrow down a shortlist. Returns a structured comparison object; the agent should render it as a table or feature-bullet diff.