Wellington Plastic Surgery Institute
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 87.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #4 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-surgeon plastic and reconstructive surgery practice in Thorndon, Wellington. Two responsible surgeons named with role; both matched in the board register with a current specialist certificate; named hospital affiliations include certified surgical facilities.
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 | 3.3 out of 5 · reviews: 23 |
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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: Craig Andrew MacKinnon and Christopher Donald Adams, both vocational scope Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, status Practising, current certificates. [mcnz-mackinnon] [mcnz-adams] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Both surgeons named with role and this practice address on the clinic's own site. [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). Both register statuses Practising, certificates current to 28 February 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-mackinnon] [mcnz-adams] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Clinic's own about page names Wakefield Hospital, Wellington among the surgeons' credentialed facilities; the facility register lists Wakefield Hospital as a certified surgical premises. [site] [healthcert] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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: Wellington Plastic Surgery Institute Limited, company status Registered, registered office matches the clinic's own advertised address. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.wpsi.co.nz/ — matched by name] [companies] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Site names the board register and FRACS/professional-association memberships without a numeric identifier. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Exceptional care and outstanding results |
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. Consent and surgical risk are described in general terms; post-operative after-hours information is referenced; no explicit revision-surgery policy or complaints route found. [site-faq] |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Craig Andrew MacKinnon [site] [mcnz-mackinnon] | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | not published |
| Mr Christopher Donald Adams [site] [mcnz-adams] | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: Wellington Plastic Surgery Institute Limited · 1777658 [companies]
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.wpsi.co.nz/ |
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| Phone | (04) 499 7642 |
| Address | Level 6, 15 Murphy Street, Thorndon, Wellington 6011 |
| City | Wellington |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.wpsi.co.nz/about-us/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, address, hospital credentials, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| site-faq | https://www.wpsi.co.nz/terms/faq/ | clinic's own site | consent and risk wording, post-operative information | 30 August 2026 |
| mcnz-mackinnon | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/mac… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status | 30 August 2026 |
| mcnz-adams | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/ada… | 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-mackinnon | https://www.hpdt.org.nz/Search-Decisions | official register | POST txtSearch=MacKinnon DDL1=4 (Medical Practitioners) — 0 records found for the surname | 30 August 2026 |
| hpdt-adams | https://www.hpdt.org.nz/Search-Decisions | official register | POST txtSearch=Adams DDL1=4 (Medical Practitioners) — 1 record found, for a different practitioner (Peter Jacob Arnold Adams, Rotorua), not this clinic's surgeon | 30 August 2026 |
| healthcert | https://www.health.govt.nz/system/files/LegalEntitySummaryNGOHospit… | official register | Wakefield Hospital row: Certification Service Type NGO Hospital, Service Types Surgical/Medical, Certificate/License End Date 27-5-2028 | 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) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.wpsi.co.nz/ — matched by name) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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