Regulatory Watch

Three regulators publish rules for your facility. Nobody sends you the ones that matter.

DHA, DOH and EDE issued 130 instruments in the first nine months of 2026. Most reach you as a circular with a PDF attached and no indication whether it applies to your licence class. Regulatory Watch reads all of them, keeps the ones that touch you, and tells you what each one costs you, and what it changes about what you can bill.

Senior-led · Independent judgment · Limited mandates

What you receive

01

Filtered to your licence class

Tell us where you operate and we show you the classes your regulator issues. An instrument addressed to all licensed facilities reaches you; one addressed to day surgery centres does not, unless you run one.

02

Assessed across ten dimensions

Every instrument, every dimension, every time. Where one is not engaged we say so and why. You hand each line to the person who owns it.

03

Costed, then signed off

Both directions, written by the principal who runs the mandates. What compliance costs you, and what the change does to what you can bill. Nothing reaches you unread.

Ten questions, asked of every instrument

Not a checklist we run when something looks big. Every instrument is put through all ten, every time. Where the answer is “nothing changes here”, we say so and why, because knowing a circular does not touch your contracts is worth as much as knowing it does.

  1. 01

    Clinical and scope of service

    Does this change what we may treat, or how we must treat it?

  2. 02

    Operations

    What has to change in how the day actually runs?

  3. 03

    Financial

    What does this cost us, and what does it change about what we can bill?

  4. 04

    Workforce

    Who needs briefing, retraining, or a licence we do not hold?

  5. 05

    Systems and data

    Which system, template or reporting route has to be changed?

  6. 06

    Patient

    What must we now tell patients, or capture from them?

  7. 07

    Licence risk

    What will an inspector ask for, and what happens if we cannot show it?

  8. 08

    Contracts

    Does any agreement we have signed need revisiting?

  9. 09

    Timeline

    By when, and is there a transition period or none?

  10. 10

    Valuation and diligence

    What would a buyer price, deduct or flag because of this?

The tenth is the difference. Avior is a healthcare M&A firm, so every assessment says what a buyer would price, deduct or flag in diligence. A compliance service cannot write that column, because none of them sit on transactions.

Retainers

Operator

A single site, or a small group

AED 1,800per year

Up to 5 licensed facilities

  • Every instrument that touches your licence class, filtered to you
  • The 360 assessment on each one, across all ten dimensions
  • What it costs you, written by the principal, not summarised by a machine
  • A named action with the date it is due
  • Quarterly deadline calendar

Group

Multi-site operators, across more than one emirate

AED 4,800per year

Up to 20 licensed facilities

  • Everything in Operator
  • Coverage across DHA, DOH and EDE in one view
  • Per-site filtering where your sites sit under different regulators
  • Year-end review of what you missed and what it cost

Market access

Manufacturers, distributors and authorised representatives

AED 2,400per year

One legal entity

  • EDE product and registration instruments
  • Recalls and safety notices affecting products you carry
  • Pharmacy and medication instruments across all three regulators
  • Import, storage and distribution rule changes

Prices are annual and exclude VAT where it applies. Invoiced on engagement; the retainer starts when the invoice is settled.

Start a retainer

Tell us what you operate. We will confirm scope and send an invoice. Your first briefing follows once it is settled.

Step 1 Emirates you operate in
Step 2 Licence classes you hold

Choose an emirate above and the licence classes for its regulator appear here.

No payment is taken here. We confirm scope first, then invoice.

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Regulatory Watch is advisory work product, not legal advice. Engage qualified UAE counsel before acting on any regulatory obligation. Avior Advisory charges advisory and success fees, disclosed in writing before work begins.

Engagement · Limited mandates

Choosing who advises you is itself a strategic decision.

We take a limited number of mandates at any time. If you are working a decision that needs independent counsel, start with a conversation.