The James Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.9/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-site plastic-surgery clinic in St Albans, Christchurch. The responsible surgeon is named with role and matches a current vocational scope in the national medical register. Injectable and skin-therapy services at the same address are delivered by a registered nurse and a skin therapist.
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.
| 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 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. MCNZ register: Vocational scope Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery (awarded 23 October 2013), 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 Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 30 August 2026 — 0 matching rows (HealthCERT certified-private-hospital register checked by the clinic's own name and address (Caledonian Rd, St Albans); no record. The clinic operates from its own consulting rooms, not a certified hospital.) Register queried, no record found. HealthCERT certified-private-hospital register checked by the clinic's own name and address (Caledonian Rd, St Albans); no record. The clinic operates from its own consulting rooms, not a certified hospital. |
? | ? | 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 No pattern from the lexicon found. |
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 None. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision or complaint documentation found on the clinic's own pages. [site-surgical] |
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 Dylan Wyn James [site] [mcnz] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, clinic lead | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
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.christchurchplasticsurgeon.co.nz/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 03 968 3429 |
| Address | Level 2/11 Caledonian Rd, St Albans, Christchurch 8014 |
| City | Christchurch |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.christchurchplasticsurgeon.co.nz/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu structure | 30 August 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.christchurchplasticsurgeon.co.nz/about-us | clinic's own site | physician bio, role, qualifications | 30 August 2026 |
| site-surgical | https://www.christchurchplasticsurgeon.co.nz/surgical-procedures | clinic's own site | segments (breast, liposuction), patient-document check | 30 August 2026 |
| site-nonsurgical | https://www.christchurchplasticsurgeon.co.nz/non-surgical-procedures | clinic's own site | injectables segment, advertising-honesty check | 30 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/jam… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status | 30 August 2026 |
| healthcert | https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/LegalEntitySummaryNGOHospit… | official register | facility registration check (searched, no matching row) | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: 3 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): a register miss is never a value — M4 = 3 was written for "register exists, no record found"; re-typed not_found with the logged query) |
| 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.