Doctor Stephen Mills — Plastic Surgeon
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 70.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #16 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Plastic surgery practice with clinics in Newmarket and St Heliers. Responsible plastic surgeon named with role and tied to these addresses; specialist certification matched in the register; one of the two hospitals the practice names for surgery is a certified surgical facility.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Board register: vocational scope Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, status Practising, current practising certificate. [mcnz] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name on the medical register; status Practising, Conditions: None. [mcnz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. The practice names two hospitals for surgery. One is in the facility register under a fuller premises name (register: Southern Cross Hospital Brightside, 3 Brightside Road, Epsom, Auckland; service types Surgical, Medical; certificate held by Southern Cross Healthcare Limited to 22 May 2027) and the practice page links straight to that hospital; the register carries no row for the second, Auckland City Surgical Services. [site-hospitals] [healthcert] Brightside Hospital |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. The practice trades under the physician’s own name and publishes no legal entity: no company name with a legal form, no company number and no New Zealand Business Number on any of its pages (home, About Us, Meet the Staff, Our Clinics, Hospitals, Patient Info, Finance, Links, Contact Us and both clinic pages), including the footer that repeats on every page. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. Systematic superlatives without an outcome guarantee. [site] |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. One of the five classes is published: each procedure page carries an After Surgery section with dressing, medication, activity and recovery-time instructions. No consent material, no risk or complication information, no revision policy and no complaint route. Pages loaded: home, About Us, Meet the Staff, Our Clinics, Hospitals, all procedure pages, Patient Info, Testimonials, Finance, Links and Contact Us. [site] [site-breast-enlargement] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Stephen Mills [site] [mcnz] | Plastic Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency — Single language front
These cells score nothing and are not negative findings. A cell on a register that is closed to machine queries is left out of the coverage calculation; the others count against it. Each one names why it is empty; an attempt that did not complete is re-run in the next collection pass. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.doctormills.co.nz/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 09 575 4749 |
| Address | 77 Carlton Gore Road, Newmarket, Auckland (also EastMed, 188 St Heliers Bay Road, Auckland) |
| City | Auckland |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.doctormills.co.nz/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, addresses, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/mil… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status | 30 August 2026 |
| hpdt | https://www.hpdt.org.nz/Search-Decisions | official register | disciplinary sanctions search (Medical Practitioners, keyword Mills) — no matching practitioner record | 30 August 2026 |
| site-hospitals | https://www.doctormills.co.nz/about-us/hospitals/ | clinic's own site | the hospitals the practice names for surgery | 20 September 2026 |
| healthcert | https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/LegalEntitySummaryNGOHospit… | official register | facility certification of the named hospital (premises, service type, certificate, expiry) | 20 September 2026 |
| site-breast-enlargement | https://www.doctormills.co.nz/surgical-procedures/breast-surgeries/… | clinic's own site | patient-document scan (After Surgery instructions) | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M9: "null (retry)" → "2" (Re-run: the clinic’s own pages scanned for the five patient-document classes (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: "null (retry)" → "2" (Re-run: clinic pages re-read for a named legal entity (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: "null (retry)" → "4" (Re-run against the HealthCERT certified private-hospital export (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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