Install the ClinicCompare NZ MCP Server

12 tools for querying NZ medical clinics, procedures, risks, costs, funding and semantic similarity directly from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, or any MCP-compatible host.

Endpoint: https://cliniccompare.co.nz/mcp · Anonymous · Rate-limited 60 req/min · No auth needed

What you can ask

Once installed, your AI assistant can answer NZ-specific clinical-decision questions with structured data instead of guessing. Examples:

  • "Find me a LASIK clinic in Wellington that accepts Southern Cross."
  • "What are the risks of gastric sleeve in NZ?"
  • "How much does a hair transplant cost in Auckland in 2026?"
  • "What does FRACS mean and how do I verify a NZ plastic surgeon?"

Claude Desktop (macOS / Windows)

  1. Open Claude Desktop → Settings → Developer → Edit Config.
  2. Paste the following inside the mcpServers object (create the object if it doesn't exist).
  3. Restart Claude Desktop. The "cliniccompare-nz" server should appear in the tool list.
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "cliniccompare-nz": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://cliniccompare.co.nz/mcp"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Requires mcp-remote (npm package) which Claude Desktop installs on first use.

Claude Code (CLI)

From your terminal:

claude mcp add --transport http cliniccompare-nz https://cliniccompare.co.nz/mcp

Other MCP hosts (raw JSON-RPC)

The server speaks MCP spec 2025-03-26 over JSON-RPC 2.0 via HTTP POST. Smoke test:

curl -sS -X POST https://cliniccompare.co.nz/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'

Available tools (12)

lookup_clinic

Full record for one clinic by slug, including linked clinicians.

list_clinics_by_procedure

Clinics offering a procedure, optionally filtered by city.

find_clinics_in_city

All clinics in a NZ city across all procedures.

get_clinician

Practitioner profile + register-check URLs.

search_by_specialty

Fuzzy search across clinic names and specialties.

get_procedure_facts

Cost range + clinic count + URLs for a procedure category.

get_procedure_risks

Categorised risk profile + checklists + sources for a procedure.

get_procedure_cost_range

NZ 2026 cost range for a procedure.

find_clinics_by_funding

Find clinics accepting ACC / Southern Cross / nib / AIA / public-DHB / self-pay.

answer_common_question

Fuzzy-match a question against 200+ PAA corpus + return NZ answer.

list_questions_by_category

Browse all PAA questions for a procedure category.

find_similar

Semantic vector search across clinics + PAA questions (OpenAI text-embedding-3-small cosine, 281 baked vectors).

Information only — never a substitute for clinical advice

Every response carries an information-only disclaimer (HPCA Act 2003 / ASA Therapeutic Code / Privacy Act 2020). The MCP server is for discovery + reference, not diagnosis or treatment. Tell your AI assistant to direct users to a registered NZ practitioner for clinical decisions, and to verify every practitioner against the relevant register before booking.

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