The Avoca Clinic — Dublin
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 65.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #7 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
65.7/100
coverage 77% (threshold 75%)
Summary
Cosmetic and plastic surgery clinic, one of the Avoca Clinic group's Irish locations. A named consultant plastic surgeon is presented as the clinic's surgeon on this location's own page.
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 — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: plasticsurgery_ie, 18 September 2026 — IAPS member list does not name this clinic’s responsible physician, so no secondary finding is carried. ISAPS find-a-surgeon for Ireland answers HTTP 200 with a client-rendered shell (no surgeon rows in the HTML) and is left to the operator’s browser pass. |
? | ? | 26 | 2026-09-18 |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — this register is closed to machine queries in this country, so the axis is left out of the coverage calculation for every clinic on this site. Not a negative finding. Reason: Register closed to machine queries. Last attempt: ftp_notices, 18 September 2026 — No publication notice names this clinic’s physicians, so the one openly readable source of an Irish registration number (“Reg No.…” in a notice) returns nothing for them, and the clinic publishes no IMC number of its own. The register search was re-probed on 2026-09-18 (GET + the documented WebForms POST, surname echoed back) and still renders “You must answer the reCAPTCHA” with zero rows. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-09-18 |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 18 September 2026 — Every leg run: 0 rows for the centre name, 0 rows for the street address, and the clinic is not among the 76 Healthcare centres HIQA lists for Dublin. HIQA registers designated centres, monitors HSE-funded services and private hospitals and regulates medical ionising radiation; Ireland has no licence class for a cosmetic or aesthetic clinic, so the absence carries no finding about this clinic. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-18 |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. The clinic names its operating company in its own privacy policy but publishes no CRO number; the company is matched by name in the CRO bulk export (THE AVOCA CLINIC LIMITED, no. 457058, status Normal). [site-privacy] [cro] The Avoca Clinic Ltd is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No registration number, NHS/Medical Council reference or issuer-attributed identifier is published for the named surgeon on the pages checked. [site-dublin] With extensive experience as a world-renowned and fully accredited plastic surgeon |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. Two soft superlatives in the clinic’s own text; no guarantee of an outcome. Pages loaded: Dublin location page, about, patient-safety and aftercare. [site-dublin] We are recognised as a leading private hospital in Ireland |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 18 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-18 |
| M9 | Patient documents Two or three. A dedicated recovery guide is published; explicit consent documentation, a revision policy and a named complaint route were not found on the pages checked. [site-recovery] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
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-dublin] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-dublin] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-dublin] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-dublin] |
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 Khalid Khan [site-dublin] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: The Avoca Clinic Limited · 457058 [cro]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-dublin]
What we could not verify
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician — Register closed to machine queries
- M3 · Basic medical licence — Register closed to machine queries
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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.avocaclinic.ie/clinic-locations/dublin |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 1 201 4563 |
| Address | Suite 3-6, The Hyde Building, The Park, Carrickmines, Dublin, D18 FA40 |
| City | Dublin |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-dublin | https://www.avocaclinic.ie/clinic-locations/dublin | clinic's own site | identifiability, address, named physician, role, treatment menu, superlative claims | 31 August 2026 |
| site-home | https://www.avocaclinic.ie/ | clinic's own site | group-wide superlative claim (‘leading private hospital in Ireland’) | 31 August 2026 |
| site-recovery | https://www.avocaclinic.ie/aftercare/recovery-guide | clinic's own site | aftercare / recovery information | 31 August 2026 |
| cro | https://opendata.cro.ie/dataset/bf6f837d-0946-4c14-9a99-82cd6980c12… | official register | CRO bulk companies.csv (export of 2026-09-18, 824,922 rows): company_num 457058, company_name "THE AVOCA CLINIC LIMITED", company_status_code 1151 (Normal), registered office Unit 3-6, Hyde Building, The Park, Carrickmines, Dublin 18, D18 FA40. | 31 August 2026 |
| ftp | https://www.medicalcouncil.ie/complaints/past-inquiries/ | official register | Fitness to Practise Inquiry Notifications index and all 19 year pages (2008–2026) fetched and checked; no notice names "Khan" tied to a plastic surgery practice (a different "Dr Khalid Jabber" appears in 2025 and is a distinct person). | 31 August 2026 |
| site-privacy | https://www.avocaclinic.ie/privacy-policy | clinic's own site | The clinic’s own privacy policy, which names the operating company. | 18 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 4 (Lexicon scan re-run on the clinic’s own live pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (M5 ladder re-read under v1.2: the clinic names the entity without a registration number, so the match is by name (4), not by number (5)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M4: null → null (Re-run against the HIQA Find a Centre register, all three legs (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M3: null → null (Secondary route run for the closed medical licence register (FtP publication notices, v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1: null → null (Secondary route run for the closed specialist register (IAPS member list, v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M1.nullReason: "retry" → "registry_closed" (Methodology v1.2 (owner ruling 2026-09-18): specialist register closed for the whole site (closedAttempt on record): the axis leaves the coverage denominator) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.avocaclinic.ie/clinic-locations/dublin (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 31 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.