The Hanson Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 54.4/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Single-consultant plastic surgery practice in Dublin 2. The named consultant plastic surgeon is on the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons membership list; the clinic's own operating company is registered at the Companies Registration Office.
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 names Mr Richard Hanson; the association’s own statement about the Specialist Register is a secondary source, so the finding is carried in facts[] and M1 is not scored. 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 Only a brand, without a legal form and without a responsible person. Whatever we find ourselves is shown on the profile as a fact and does not raise this cell. Scan of the clinic’s own pages (home page, about, contact-us, privacy policy and cookie policy) finds no legal entity named: the site trades under its brand and publishes neither a company name with a legal form nor a CRO number. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Qualifications are named (MB, MCh, FRCS (plast)) and IAPS membership is stated, but no Medical Council registration number is published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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. Superlative claims run through the clinic’s own about page (“world-class”, “one of Ireland’s most trusted surgeons”, “a premier destination”); no guarantee of an outcome. Pages loaded: home page, about, contact-us, privacy policy and cookie policy. [site] The Hanson Clinic continues to thrive as a premier destination |
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 One. No consent, risk, revision-policy or complaint-route information found on the pages checked. [site] |
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] |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mr Richard Hanson [site] [iaps] | Consultant Plastic Surgeon (MB, MCh, FRCS (plast)) | not published |
Legal entity: The Hanson Clinic Limited · 659632 [cro]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
Secondary findings (not scored)
What a professional society, an international directory, a hospital page or another jurisdiction’s register says, shown for information where the country’s own register is closed. These facts enter neither the score nor the coverage.
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECMr Richard Hanson named on the IAPS membership list (association/secondary source); the Medical Council Specialist Register itself is reCAPTCHA-gated and could not be queried, so this axis is capped at secondary provenance.[iaps]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECThe Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons lists Mr Richard Hanson in its published member list.
[iaps]Richard P Hanson FRCSI (Plast)
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://cosmeticsurgeries.ie/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 87 373 5089 |
| Address | 33 Fitzwilliam Street Upper, Dublin 2, D02 TF82 |
| City | Dublin |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://cosmeticsurgeries.ie/ | clinic's own site | identifiability, address, phone, treatment menu, superlative claims | 31 August 2026 |
| iaps | https://www.plasticsurgery.ie/find-a-surgeon/ | secondary | Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons membership list names Mr Richard Hanson ("Richard P Hanson FRCSI (Plast)"); the list states members are "on the Specialist Register in Plastic And Reconstructive Surgery, of the Medical Council" — an association claim, not the register itself (which is reCAPTCHA-gated). | 31 August 2026 |
| cro | https://opendata.cro.ie/dataset/bf6f837d-0946-4c14-9a99-82cd6980c12… | official register | CRO bulk companies.csv (823,124 rows, published 2026-08-31): company_num 659632, company_name "The Hanson Clinic Limited", registered office Suite 2 Sports Surgery Clinic, Northwood Avenue, Santry, Dublin; Normal status. | 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 "Hanson". | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Lexicon scan re-run on the clinic’s own live pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (M5 ladder re-read under v1.2: the clinic names no legal entity on its own pages, so the axis is brand-only (2); a company located in the register on our side does not raise it) |
| 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: 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[]) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://cosmeticsurgeries.ie/ (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.