The Sharp Clinics
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 89.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #3 of 23 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Solo specialist plastic-surgery clinic in South Brisbane, with an Ipswich satellite location. The site publishes the surgeon’s own AHPRA registration number and an explicit statement that results vary between patients; medical and specialist registration in plastic surgery matched in the national register of practitioners; legal entity and an affiliated licensed facility both matched in official registers.
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 David Andrew Sharp (MED0000962857): 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 MED0000962857 in the Ahpra Register of practitioners; one direct match, registration status Registered, first registered 17/12/2004. [ahpra] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The legal entity and its registration number are published by the clinic and matched in the register. Business register: The Trustee for Sharp Service Trust, ABN active from 2015, registered postcode adjacent to the clinic’s South Brisbane address. [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. The site publishes the physician’s own AHPRA registration number; no facility or legal-entity number is published. [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 11 pages (home, /why-choose-the-sharp-clinics/, /guarantee-courtesy-policies/, /hospitals-plastic-surgeons-dr-sharp/, /meet-our-team/, /questions-about-cosmetic-surgery/, /how-to-choose-a-plastic-surgeon/, /all-about-breast-implants/, /sustainability-and-environmental-policy/ and two procedure pages). Recurring superlatives with no issuer named: the care claim quoted here, a site-wide description of the clinic as award-winning, a claim that the professional society’s code upholds standards described in absolute terms, and a light-therapy page that makes an absolute claim about discomfort. The page headed Lifetime Care Guarantee is a commitment to continuity of care and complimentary review consultations, not a promise about the result, and every page footer states that results vary and cannot be guaranteed — so no bright-line statement was found. [site] [site-why] [site-guarantee] Our team of experienced anaesthetists and surgical assistants support Dr Sharp in delivering the safest possible care and comfort. |
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 Four. Risk/results-vary disclaimer, post-operative/recovery information, a stated follow-up policy and a complaint pathway published; no dedicated informed-consent document found. [site] [site-contact] |
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 David Sharp [site] [asps] | Specialist plastic surgeon, principal | MED0000962857 |
Legal entity: The Trustee for Sharp Service Trust · ABN 33 484 514 450 [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.plastic-surgery-brisbane.com.au/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | (07) 3202 4744 |
| Address | Atlas, Ground Level, 39 Cordelia Street, South Brisbane QLD 4101 |
| City | Brisbane |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.plastic-surgery-brisbane.com.au/ | clinic's own site | physician name, AHPRA number, procedure menu, memberships, hospital affiliations | 30 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://www.plastic-surgery-brisbane.com.au/contact/ | clinic's own site | street address, postcode, phone (structured data) | 30 August 2026 |
| asps | https://plasticsurgery.org.au/surgeon/dr-david-sharp/ | secondary | ASPS member page: AHPRA ID, "Specialist Plastic Surgeon" wording | 30 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=33484514450 | official register | ABN Lookup record: The Trustee for Sharp Service Trust, ABN 33 484 514 450, active from 04 Nov 2015, QLD 4103 | 30 August 2026 |
| qldfac | https://www.health.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0033/443994/pr… | official register | Queensland Licenced Facilities List: Greenslopes Private Hospital, Newdegate Street, Greenslopes QLD 4120 | 30 August 2026 |
| oho | https://www.oho.qld.gov.au/public/protective-orders | official register | Queensland Office of the Health Ombudsman public orders register — searched for Sharp, 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 = MED0000962857, then the record view): Dr David Andrew Sharp, Medical Practitioner, registration number MED0000962857, registration status Registered, conditions / undertakings / reprimands None, date of first registration 17/12/2004, specialist registration Surgery / Plastic surgery | 20 September 2026 |
| site-why | https://www.plastic-surgery-brisbane.com.au/why-choose-the-sharp-cl… | clinic's own site | M7 lexicon scan | 20 September 2026 |
| site-guarantee | https://www.plastic-surgery-brisbane.com.au/guarantee-courtesy-poli… | clinic's own site | M7 lexicon scan: the clinic’s care-continuity policy | 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 | 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 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.plastic-surgery-brisbane.com.au/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 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.