Face Value
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 55.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #21 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 29 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Doctor-led injectables and skin-treatment clinic in Merivale, Christchurch. The responsible physician is named with role, is registered and practising in the national medical register under the General Practice vocational scope. The practice's own legal entity is matched in the companies register by name and director.
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 in the register; the register does not disclose specialty. MCNZ register: Vocational scope General Practice (awarded 16 June 2000), status Practising with a current practising certificate. General Practice is not a specialty matching the clinic's advertised aesthetic-medicine service. [mcnz] |
OFF | 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 Matched by name. Matched by name; status Practising with a current practising certificate. MCNZ's public register carries no registration number. [mcnz] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-08-29 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Legal entity and registration number published and matched in the register. Face Value Limited (company no. 1432511, NZBN 9429035692539), Registered; Philip Martin Frost is one of two directors. [companies] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Guarantee or ‘100%’-class statement (bright line; cap candidate). Our team of practitioners guarantee the highest level of care and attention in every treatment we provide. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. No consent, risk, aftercare, revision or complaint documentation found on the clinic's own pages; the FAQ page carries no clinic-specific content. [site] [site-faq] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
Score ceilings
- Outcome guarantee or ‘100% safe’-class statement — ceiling 65/100The clinic's own page https://www.facevalue.co.nz/about-us/ (en, 2026-08-29) states: “Our team of practitioners guarantee the highest level of care and attention in every treatment we provide.”. Under this methodology an outcome guarantee caps the score at 65.[site-about]
Ceilings are applied only from verified-false findings with the exact quote or register entry cited. The clinic has a right of reply; a statement with a source changes the data, a statement without one is shown next to it.
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 Philip Martin Frost [site] [mcnz] | Founder, Medical Director | not published |
Legal entity: Face Value Limited · 1432511 [companies]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site]
- 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 (Health Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal / Te Rōpū Whakamana i te Tiaki Hauora (HPDT) — the statutory tribunal constituted under s 84 of the Health Practitioners Competence Assurance Act 2003 that hears disciplinary charges against registered health practitioners; its public decision database publishes file number, decision date, profession, scope of practice, practitioner name, established charge characteristics, penalties, suppression and appeal orders, and the full decision PDFs): could not verify
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration
- 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.facevalue.co.nz/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 03 363 8810 |
| Address | 145 Innes Road, Merivale, Christchurch |
| City | Christchurch |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.facevalue.co.nz/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, address, phone | 29 August 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.facevalue.co.nz/about-us/ | clinic's own site | advertising-honesty check (guarantee quote) | 29 August 2026 |
| site-treatments | https://www.facevalue.co.nz/treatments/ | clinic's own site | segments (injectables menu) | 29 August 2026 |
| site-faq | https://www.facevalue.co.nz/faq/ | clinic's own site | patient-document check (no clinic-specific content found) | 29 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/fro… | official register | medical licence status, vocational scope | 29 August 2026 |
| companies | https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/co/1432511 | official register | legal entity, registration number, director | 29 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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.