How do you run the DHA self inspection every three months?

Every three months, the facility inspects itself with DHA's checklists, signs the result and keeps it for DHA's inspectors. Done properly, it finds what an inspector would find, a quarter earlier.

What DHA's policy says

DHA's audit and inspection policy requires facilities to run a self inspection using the checklists on DHA's website, on a three-monthly basis, and to keep it for inspectors.¹ The policy's risk rating weighs compliance history over the last three visits, so a facility that finds and fixes its own gaps is inspected less often.¹ Renewal compliance counts too, and DHA's licensing manual lets renewal start three months before expiry.²

1. Diary four dates a year. With a named lead for each.
2. Use DHA's checklist for your facility type. Not a homemade version.
3. Check from the record. Files, drugs, staff licences and access logs, as they are.
4. Score and sign. Every item, with the date and the signature.
5. Close gaps before the next quarter. Each with an owner and a date.

1. Quarter ______ Checklist version ______
2. Lead ______ Signed on ______
3. Items met ______ Items not met ______
4. Actions, owner and date ______
5. Closed on ______

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Questions

How often is the self inspection?

Every three months.

Do we send it to DHA?

The policy asks facilities to keep it for DHA's inspectors.

Does it affect our risk rating?

Compliance history is part of the risk rating, and a self inspection is how you keep it clean.

Sources

1. 1Dubai Health Authority, 2022Health Facility Audit and Inspection, DHA/HRS/HPSD/HP-03, version 2, effective 16 February 2022Read source
2. 2Dubai Health Authority, 2024Manual for Licensing Health Facility, version 1.1, effective 20 November 2024Read source

Written by the wai team from Dubai Health Authority guidance, checked on 15 October 2026. This is guidance, not legal advice. DHA does not endorse wai or any software.