Melbourne Institute of Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 82.6/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #15 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-surgeon plastic surgery group established 1997, with a second consulting address in Richmond. Surgeons named with roles and individual AHPRA numbers on the clinic’s own site; the founding surgeon’s medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners; legal entity matched by name and business-name registration; the Malvern address also appears, under a different registered facility name, in the state day-procedure-centre 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 Graeme John Southwick (MED0001010319): registration status Registered, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery (a second specialist registration, Surgery / Otolaryngology - head and neck surgery, is on the same record) — 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 MED0001010319 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 10/12/1970. [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 Malvern address (253 Wattletree Road) matches a facility registered in the state day-procedure-centre list under a different trading name (Stonnington Day Surgery), at the same street address. [vic-dpc] |
OFF | 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. Legal entity matched: the clinic's trading name is the registered business name of the matched company, at the matched postcode, current since 1999. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)] [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Individual AHPRA registration numbers published for each named surgeon; no legal-entity or facility number published on this page. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One soft superlative on the about page. [site] committed to providing patients with the best possible care |
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 Two or three. Risk and revision-related content published; consent, aftercare and complaint route not found 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Associate Professor Graeme Southwick OAM [site] [asps-southwick] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | MED0001010319 |
| Mr Morris Ritz [site] [asps-ritz] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | MED0001156076 |
| Mr Andrew Greensmith [site] | Specialist Plastic and Aesthetic Surgeon | MED0001206635 |
| Mr Damon Thomas [site] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | MED0001170385 |
| Mr Edmund Ek [site] | Specialist Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon | MED0001202123 |
Legal entity: Australian Institute of Plastic Surgery Pty Ltd · ABN 97 081 128 154 / ACN 081 128 154 [abr]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability SECCompany register entry found for Australian Institute of Plastic Surgery Pty Ltd (ABN 97 081 128 154 / ACN 081 128 154); the clinic's own surface names neither the entity nor the number.[abr]
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.melbplastsurg.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 03 9508 9508 |
| Address | 253 Wattletree Road, Malvern VIC 3144 |
| City | Melbourne |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.melbplastsurg.com/about-us/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, AHPRA numbers, addresses, menu | 30 August 2026 |
| asps-southwick | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/associate-professor-graeme-so… | secondary | specialist plastic surgeon society listing, AHPRA ID cross-check, address | 30 August 2026 |
| asps-ritz | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/mr-morris-ritz/ | secondary | specialist plastic surgeon society listing, AHPRA ID cross-check, address | 30 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=97081128154 | official register | legal entity, ABN, ACN, registered business name | 30 August 2026 |
| vic-dpc | https://www.health.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-03/contact-d… | official register | facility register, address match | 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 = MED0001010319, then the record view): Dr Graeme John Southwick, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0001010319, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 10/12/1970, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery (a second specialist registration, Surgery / Otolaryngology - head and neck surgery, is on the same record) | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)) |
| 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 | 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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