Phuket Old Town

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🇹🇭  Treatment in Phuket

Phuket is in Phuket Province. Its private clinics are licensed or registered by the Phuket Provincial Public Health Office; it also publishes a list of them.

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Not medical advice. Whether a treatment is right for you is a decision to take with a doctor or dentist who has examined you. We never rank, review or recommend clinics in Phuket.

Region

Phuket Province

Airport

HKT

Time zone

UTC+7

EU rules

No

Who licenses clinics in Phuket

Phuket is in Phuket Province (จังหวัดภูเก็ต).

Regional authority

Phuket Provincial Public Health Office

สำนักงานสาธารณสุขจังหวัดภูเก็ต

The Ministry of Public Health's office for the province. Private hospitals and clinics in Thailand must be licensed under the Sanatorium (Medical Facilities) Act: check the licence in the ministry's national search.

Regional register

Department of Health Service Support: check of licensed private medical facilities

The Ministry of Public Health's search of licensed private hospitals and clinics, by licence number or by name (in Thai). Ask the clinic for its licence number (เลขที่ใบอนุญาต) and search it.

Check a clinic or a doctor in Phuket

The national registers for Thailand cover Phuket too:

Doctors

Medical Council of Thailand: check a doctor

Search a doctor's first name and surname, in Thai or in English: only doctors licensed to practise medicine are listed.

Dentists

Dental Council of Thailand: check a dentist

Type the dentist's first name and surname exactly as written in their licence (the form is in Thai): it lists only living dentists licensed to practise. If you do not find them, ask for their licence number and contact the council.

Getting there

Most patients fly into Phuket (HKT).

Estimated flight time
FromEstimated flight
United Kingdomabout 12.9 h
Irelandabout 13.3 h
Germanyabout 11.7 h
Franceabout 12.3 h
United Statesabout 16.3 h
Canadaabout 16.1 h
Australiaabout 6.5 h

Straight-line estimate from the nearest main airport (800 km/h plus 30 minutes), not a timetable: connections add time.

Treatments in Thailand

Other cities in Thailand: Bangkok · Thailand: the whole country

Sources

Next review due 9 May 2027.