Victorian Cosmetic Institute
Verification pending: less of the axis weight is sourced than the threshold requires, so no score is published yet.
Status: verification pending · last checked 30 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Non-surgical cosmetic-medicine clinic (injectables, laser, skin treatments) founded 2005. Lead physician named with role and general medical registration number published on the clinic's own site; not a specialist plastic surgeon, so no specialist-board match applies. Legal entity matched by name and registration date; the 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 Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Lead physician holds general medical registration, not specialist plastic-surgery registration; not found in the specialist plastic surgeons society directories (absence not scored down, per methodology). |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-08-29 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-08-30 |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found with a spelling discrepancy. The practice address matches a facility registered in the state day-procedure-centre list under a different trading name (Victorian Specialist Day Surgery Centre), at the same street address and phone number. [vic-dpc] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Legal entity and registration number published and matched in the register. Legal entity matched: the clinic's trading name is the registered business name of the matched company, at the matched postcode, current since 2006. [abr] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Lead physician’s general medical registration number published on the clinic's own treatment page; no legal-entity or facility number published there. [site-injectables] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Quote not re-verified on 2026-08-30; previous value 4 withdrawn. |
? | ? | 12 | 2026-08-30 |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision or complaint-route content identified on the pages reviewed. [site-about] [site-injectables] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
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-about] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-injectables] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-injectables] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-about] |
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 Gavin Chan [site-injectables] | Cosmetic doctor, founder and practice leader | MED0001175745 |
| Dr Natasha Moscato [site-about] | Cosmetic doctor | not published |
Legal entity: Gavin Chan Pty Ltd · ABN 17 117 668 121 / ACN 117 668 121 [abr]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-about]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (State health-complaint regulators' public registers of orders and actions against health practitioners. PRIMARY (the only one that names Ahpra-REGISTERED practitioners with their registration numbers): Office of the Health Ombudsman (Queensland) — 'Actions/orders taken against health practitioners' (immediate registration actions, prohibition orders, QCAT prohibition decisions). Also open and tested: NSW Health Care Complaints Commission — 'List of Prohibition Orders' and 'Public Statements'; Health Complaints Commissioner Victoria — 'Prohibition orders'.): no entry found [hcc]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician
- M3 · Basic medical licence
- M7 · Advertising honesty
- M8 · Cross-locale consistency
These cells score nothing and count against coverage, but they are not negative findings. If you can point to a public source, send it.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.vci.com.au/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 1300 863 824 |
| Address | Level 1, 268 Manningham Road, Templestowe Lower VIC 3107 |
| City | Melbourne |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-about | https://www.vci.com.au/about/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles | 29 August 2026 |
| site-injectables | https://www.vci.com.au/injectables/ | clinic's own site | lead physician, registration number, menu | 29 August 2026 |
| abr | https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?abn=17117668121 | official register | legal entity, ABN, ACN, registered business name | 29 August 2026 |
| vic-dpc | https://www.health.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-03/contact-d… | official register | facility register, address and phone match | 29 August 2026 |
| hcc | https://hcc.vic.gov.au/orders-warnings/prohibition-orders | official register | sanctions check (name search, no match) | 29 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 30 August 2026 | axes.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.vci.com.au/injectables/ (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 29 August 2026 | Initial collection. |
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.
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