Dr Johnny Kwei
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 #16 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician plastic surgery practice with rooms in Surry Hills and Frenchs Forest. The responsible surgeon is named with role on the practice’s own site; medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners, and the three hospitals he names are matched in the state facility register.
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. Ahpra register record for Dr Johnny Sheng-Sun Kwei (MED0001593819): registration status Registered, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery — the specialty the practice advertises. [ahpra] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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 the licence number the clinic itself publishes. Matched by registration number MED0001593819 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 14/01/2002. [ahpra] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. The surgeon’s own page lists North Shore Private Hospital, Castlecrag Private Hospital and Wyvern Private Hospital as his hospital accreditations; all three are matched by name and address in the NSW licensed private health facility register (PH799, PH547, PH0030067) and all three carry the licensed class "Cosmetic surgery". [site-meet] [nsw-overnight] |
OFF | 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. Matched by name and location in the Australian Business Register (not self-published on the clinic site). [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Partial, without issuers. Qualification claimed (specialist, ASPS/ASAPS/ISAPS membership) without a published registration number on the practice's own site. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Systematic superlatives; systematic safety promises without an absolute; absolutes about the past (success rates, “no infection since …”, satisfaction figures, “we guarantee your satisfaction”); comparisons with surgery. Lexicon scan of 10 pages (home, /meet-dr-kwei/, /contact-us/, /patient-information/ and its three sub-pages, /meet-anaesthetists/ and two procedure pages). A recurring pattern with no issuer named: the quoted description, the same claim on the home page and the surgeon page, a reference to training with the foremost surgeons abroad, a section headed most popular procedures, and repeated promises of the best outcome. No outcome or safety guarantee found. [site] [site-meet] [site-prep] Dr Johnny Kwei is a leading plastic surgeon in Sydney. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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. Risks disclaimer published; no consent, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route document found. [site] |
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 Johnny Kwei [asps] | Specialist plastic surgeon | MED0001593819 |
Legal entity: Johnny Sheng Sun Kwei · ABN 85 317 873 264 [abr]
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.drjohnnykwei.com.au/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 02 9327 1541 |
| Address | 423 Bourke Street, Surry Hills NSW 2010 |
| City | Sydney |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.drjohnnykwei.com.au/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, menu, risk disclaimer | 30 August 2026 |
| asps | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/dr-johnny-kwei/ | secondary | ASPS member page: specialist plastic surgeon, AHPRA ID | 30 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=85317873264 | official register | legal entity ABN 85 317 873 264, entity name KWEI, JOHNNY SHENG SUN, main business location NSW 2067 | 30 August 2026 |
| hccc | https://www.hccc.nsw.gov.au/Decisions-Orders/register-of-prohibitio… | official register | NSW Health Care Complaints Commission prohibition-order register queried by surname, no entry | 30 August 2026 |
| ahpra | https://www.ahpra.gov.au/registration/registers-of-practitioners.aspx | official register | Register of practitioners, searched by registration number (form field name-reg = MED0001593819, then the record view): Dr Johnny Sheng-Sun Kwei, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0001593819, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 14/01/2002, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery | 20 September 2026 |
| nsw-overnight | https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Hospitals/privatehealth/Pages/list-ov… | official register | NSW Health licensed private health facilities, Overnight list (licence number, address, licensee, beds, licensed classes of care) | 20 September 2026 |
| site-meet | https://drjohnnykwei.com.au/meet-dr-kwei/ | clinic's own site | hospital accreditations of the responsible surgeon | 20 September 2026 |
| site-prep | https://drjohnnykwei.com.au/patient-information/preparing-for-surgery/ | clinic's own site | M7 lexicon scan | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | summary: null → null (Summary re-worded: the specialist claim is now carried by the national register of practitioners, not by a society directory.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Re-run of the advertising-honesty lexicon scan on the clinic’s own pages (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → 5 (Re-run against the state private-health-facility licence registers (v1.2 loop pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | facts: "M1 secondary finding (society directory)" → null (The specialist register is reachable and M1 is scored from it; the card fact recorded under the closed-register rule no longer applies.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): placeholder retry replaced by a live lookup on the registration number.) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → 5 (Re-run against the Ahpra Register of practitioners (v1.2 loop pass 1): the register answers a plain form POST to a short tool user agent, so M1 is scored from the official register.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.drjohnnykwei.com.au/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: 2 → null (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): M1 is not scored where the country's specialist register is closed; the secondary finding moved to facts[]) |
| 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.