Vital Face & Vein
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 29 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Doctor-led appearance-medicine and vein clinic in Wellington Central. Responsible clinician named with role; register match shows a general-scope practitioner, which is a lawful basis for this kind of clinic in New Zealand.
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 in the register; the register does not disclose specialty. Found in the register, vocational scope General Practice, status Practising; this is a lawful basis for appearance-medicine practice in New Zealand, which has no separate cosmetic-medicine scope. [mcnz] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Sole named clinician, role and this clinic address published together. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by licence number. Register status Practising, certificate current to 31 August 2027, no conditions. [mcnz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-08-29 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Legal entity and registration number published and matched in the register. Legal entity register: Vital Vein Limited, company status Registered, registered office in the named clinician's own name. [companies] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Site names several professional-body memberships (NZSCM, ACAM, NZSPP, ACP) without a numeric identifier. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaints text found on the public pages checked. [site] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
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 Lorraine Hamilton Smith [site] [mcnz] | Medical Director | not published |
Legal entity: Vital Vein Limited · 1653945 [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
- Sanctions / discipline register (Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal / Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiaki Hauora (HPDT) — the statutory tribunal constituted under s 84 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 that hears disciplinary charges against registered health practitioners; its public decision database publishes file number, decision date, profession, scope of practice, practitioner name, established charge characteristics, penalties, suppression and appeal orders, and the full decision PDFs): no entry found [hpdt]
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.vitalface.co.nz/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0800 848 258 |
| Address | Aviation House, Level 7, 12 Johnston Street, Wellington Central 6011 |
| City | Wellington |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.vitalface.co.nz/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, memberships, menu | 29 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/smi… | official register | medical licence status, vocational scope | 29 August 2026 |
| companies | https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companie… | official register | legal entity, registration number, status, registered office | 29 August 2026 |
| hpdt | https://www.hpdt.org.nz/Search-Decisions | official register | POST txtSearch=Smith Lorraine DDL1=4 (Medical Practitioners) — 1 record found, for a different practitioner (Ralph Brock-Smith), not this clinic's clinician | 29 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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.