Skin Institute Wellington
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 82.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #7 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-disciplinary clinic in the Wellington CBD offering skin-cancer, vein and appearance-medicine services. A specialist dermatologist is named on the clinic's own team page alongside several skin-cancer-trained general practitioners, all tied to this address.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 3.9 out of 5 · reviews: 31 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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: Kenneth Kien Siang Wong, vocational scope Dermatology, status Practising, current certificate. [mcnz] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Named on the Wellington clinic's own team page with role, tied to this address; several other clinicians are also named on the same page. [site] |
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). Register status Practising, certificate current to 31 May 2027, no conditions. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit no_number_on_record) — matched by name] [mcnz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — 0 matching rows Register queried this pass, no record found. Absence from this register means the clinic is not a certified hospital, not that it is unlicensed. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. Legal entity register: Skin Institute Limited, company status Registered. This is the national operating company; its registered office is the group's Auckland head office, not this Wellington premises. [companies] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Site publishes each named clinician's qualifications and professional body (FRACS, FRACP, FRNZCGP) without a numeric identifier. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Each treatment at Skin Institute is delivered by highly trained professionals using leading technology. |
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. The clinic's own terms page covers promotions, vouchers and cancellations but no consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaints text was found. [site-terms] |
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] |
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| 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 Kenneth Kien Siang Wong [site] [mcnz] | Specialist Dermatologist | not published |
Legal entity: Skin Institute Limited · 803890 [companies]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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.skininstitute.co.nz/clinic/wellington/ |
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| Phone | 04 499 8001 |
| Address | Corner Customhouse Quay & Panama Street, Wellington CBD 6011 |
| City | Wellington |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.skininstitute.co.nz/clinic/wellington/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, address, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-terms | https://www.skininstitute.co.nz/terms-conditions/ | clinic's own site | absence of consent/risk/aftercare/complaints text | 30 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/won… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status | 30 August 2026 |
| companies | https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companie… | official register | legal entity, registration number, status, registered office | 30 August 2026 |
| hpdt | https://www.hpdt.org.nz/Search-Decisions | official register | POST txtSearch=Wong Kenneth DDL1=4 (Medical Practitioners) — 1 record found, for a different practitioner (Denis Wong), not this clinic's dermatologist | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit no_number_on_record) — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: "null (retry)" → "null (not_found)" (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. |
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.