Face, Breast & Body
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 77.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #9 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic-surgery practice based within St George's Hospital, Christchurch. The responsible surgeon is named with role, matches a current vocational scope in the national medical register, and states three certified private hospitals as operating locations.
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. MCNZ register: Vocational scope Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (awarded 1 June 2006), status Practising with a current practising certificate; matches the clinic's advertised surgical specialty. [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; status Practising with a current practising certificate. MCNZ's public register carries no registration number. [mcnz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. The surgeon's own profile names Forté Health Private Hospital (132 Peterborough Street), St George's Hospital (249 Papanui Road) and Southern Cross Hospital Christchurch (131 Bealey Avenue) as operating hospitals; all three are certified Surgical/Medical premises in the HealthCERT register, matching on name and address. [healthcert] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Brand only; no legal entity named on the clinic's own site. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the surgeon-profile page. [site-about] |
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 | 2026-08-30 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. A procedure page sets out possible risks/complications of surgery and detailed post-operative recovery guidance; no revision or complaint route found. [site-ba] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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 Christopher John Wheelans Porter [site] [mcnz] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive 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://chrisporter.co.nz/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +64 3 242 0797 |
| Address | Hiatt Chambers, Ground Floor, St George's Hospital, 249 Papanui Road, Christchurch 8014 |
| City | Christchurch |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://chrisporter.co.nz/ | clinic's own site | physician, memberships, insurance affiliations | 30 August 2026 |
| site-about | https://chrisporter.co.nz/chris-porter/ | clinic's own site | physician bio, role, operating hospitals, address | 30 August 2026 |
| site-face | https://chrisporter.co.nz/face/ | clinic's own site | facial-surgery segment menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-breast | https://chrisporter.co.nz/breast/ | clinic's own site | breast segment menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-body | https://chrisporter.co.nz/body/ | clinic's own site | body segment menu (liposuction) | 30 August 2026 |
| site-ba | https://chrisporter.co.nz/breast/breast-augmentation-enlargement.html | clinic's own site | risk disclosure, recovery information | 30 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/por… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status | 30 August 2026 |
| healthcert | https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/LegalEntitySummaryNGOHospit… | official register | facility registration check (Forté Health, St George's, Southern Cross Christchurch all matched) | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
Correction or right of reply
Corrections are applied with a source link and logged publicly. A clinic statement without a source is published next to the data; the score does not change.