Skin Institute Wellington
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 84.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #6 of 21 ranked clinics · last checked 29 August 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Multi-disciplinary clinic in the Wellington CBD offering skin-cancer, vein and appearance-medicine services. A specialist dermatologist is named on the clinic's own team page alongside several skin-cancer-trained general practitioners, all tied to this address.
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 by name or number; specialty matches what is advertised; status current. Board register: Kenneth Kien Siang Wong, vocational scope Dermatology, status Practising, current certificate. [mcnz] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Named on the Wellington clinic's own team page with role, tied to this address; several other clinicians are also named on the same page. [site] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by licence number. Register status Practising, certificate current to 31 May 2027, no conditions. [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 Matched by name. Legal entity register: Skin Institute Limited, company status Registered. This is the national operating company; its registered office is the group's Auckland head office, not this Wellington premises. [companies] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Site publishes each named clinician's qualifications and professional body (FRACS, FRACP, FRNZCGP) without a numeric identifier. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives. Each treatment at Skin Institute is delivered by highly trained professionals using leading technology. |
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 One. The clinic's own terms page covers promotions, vouchers and cancellations but no consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaints text was found. [site-terms] |
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] |
|---|---|
| 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 Kenneth Kien Siang Wong [site] [mcnz] | Specialist Dermatologist | not published |
Legal entity: Skin Institute Limited · 803890 [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): no entry found [hpdt]
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.skininstitute.co.nz/clinic/wellington/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 04 499 8001 |
| Address | Corner Customhouse Quay & Panama Street, Wellington CBD 6011 |
| City | Wellington |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.skininstitute.co.nz/clinic/wellington/ | clinic's own site | physicians, roles, address, menu | 29 August 2026 |
| site-terms | https://www.skininstitute.co.nz/terms-conditions/ | clinic's own site | absence of consent/risk/aftercare/complaints text | 29 August 2026 |
| mcnz | https://www.mcnz.org.nz/registration/register-of-doctors/doctor/won… | official register | specialist certification, medical licence status | 29 August 2026 |
| companies | https://app.companiesoffice.govt.nz/companies/app/ui/pages/companie… | official register | legal entity, registration number, status, registered office | 29 August 2026 |
| hpdt | https://www.hpdt.org.nz/Search-Decisions | official register | POST txtSearch=Wong Kenneth DDL1=4 (Medical Practitioners) — 1 record found, for a different practitioner (Denis Wong), not this clinic's dermatologist | 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.