Dr Lipi Shukla Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 84.2/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-surgeon plastic and reconstructive surgery practice in East Melbourne, with a focus on breast surgery, hand and peripheral-nerve microsurgery, and skin-cancer surgery. Responsible surgeon named with role and qualifications; medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners; AHPRA registration number published on the clinic’s own site.
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 Lipi Shukla (MED0001674975): 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 MED0001674975 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 03/01/2011. [ahpra] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. The surgeon’s own page names Holmesglen, St Vincent’s Private, Epworth Freemasons and Cabrini as the private hospitals she operates at; the corresponding entries are matched by name in the Victorian register of private hospitals, with wording differences in the clinic’s short forms. That workbook publishes names only. [site-about] [vic-ph] |
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. Legal-entity register match by full name (individual/sole trader); registered business location differs from the practice suburb reported by the specialist society. [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Physician’s AHPRA registration number published on the clinic's own site; no legal-entity or facility number published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the home page. [site] delivering the best possible experiences and outcomes |
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 None. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision or complaint-route content identified on the pages reviewed. [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 Lipi Shukla [site] [asps] | Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon (FRACS Plast) | MED0001674975 |
Legal entity: Lipi Shukla (individual/sole trader) · ABN 74 140 641 802 [abr]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified no
- Medical weight loss: verified no
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.drlipishukla.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 03 9928 6174 |
| Address | East Melbourne VIC 3002 |
| City | Melbourne |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.drlipishukla.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, credentials, AHPRA number, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| asps | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/dr-lipi-shukla/ | secondary | specialist plastic surgeon society listing, AHPRA ID cross-check, address | 30 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=74140641802 | official register | legal entity, ABN | 30 August 2026 |
| hcc | https://hcc.vic.gov.au/orders-warnings/prohibition-orders | official register | sanctions check (name search, no match) | 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 = MED0001674975, then the record view): Dr Lipi Shukla, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0001674975, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 03/01/2011, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery | 20 September 2026 |
| vic-ph | https://www.health.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-04/private-h… | official register | Victorian registered private hospitals — name list only (the workbook’s address columns are misaligned and are not used) | 20 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.drlipishukla.com/about | clinic's own site | operating hospitals named | 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.M4: null → 4 (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.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
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