River Medical Cork
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 50/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #14 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Surgical and non-surgical cosmetic clinic with its own on-site operating theatre, part of the River Medical Group (Dublin, Cork and Belfast). Surgical consultations are led by an unnamed consultant plastic surgeon; a named aesthetic physician is listed as based in Cork on the group's team 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 Named; role unclear. A physician is named with a role and city on the group's shared team page; the surgical consultant performing procedures at this clinic is described only generically (‘an experienced consultant plastic surgeon’) and is not named. [site-team] |
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 27 Healthcare centres HIQA lists for Cork. 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 (Cork location page, about-us, meet-the-team, aftercare, FAQs, privacy policy, our-locations) 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-cork] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. the nationally recognised River Medical Group, established in 2008 with a reputation for high clinical standards |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. The clinic’s about page states a guarantee about safety in its own text. Pages loaded: Cork location page, about-us, aftercare and FAQs. [v1.3 lexicon re-read 2026-09-22: safety_promise → 4; M7-C] [site-cork] we are genuinely committed to providing all surgical and non-surgical patients with the following guarantee: You can rest assured that you are in the safest, most experienced and trusted of hands. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-22 | |
| 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. The page states patients are guided through what to expect before, during and after surgery and describes a purpose-built on-site theatre; explicit consent documentation, a revision policy and a complaint route were not found on the pages checked. [site-cork] |
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-cork] [site-team] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-cork] [site-team] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-cork] [site-team] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-cork] [site-team] |
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 Hanhushar Gunasagaran [site-team] | Aesthetic Physician (based in Cork) | not published |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site-cork]
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://rivermedical.ie/cork |
|---|---|
| Phone | +353 21 201 2196 |
| Address | Suite D, Penrose House, 2 Penrose Quay, Victorian Quarter, Cork, T23 V38E |
| City | Cork |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-cork | https://rivermedical.ie/cork | clinic's own site | identifiability, address, phone, treatment menu, group claims | 31 August 2026 |
| site-team | https://rivermedical.ie/meet-the-team | clinic's own site | named physician, role, city | 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 "Gunasagaran". | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M7: 2 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § B closed lexicon — safety_promise: M7-C) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 2 (Lexicon scan re-run on the clinic’s own live pages (v1.2 pass 1)) |
| 18 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 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.M7: 4 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://rivermedical.ie/cork (quote not found); cell degraded to could-not-verify.) |
| 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 | 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.