The Kelly Clinic — Galway
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 51.7/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #4 of 4 ranked clinics · last checked 31 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Plastic-surgeon-led skin and laser clinic with locations in Dublin and Galway, led by a professor of plastic surgery on the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons membership list. The Galway consulting suite's registered address is inside the HIQA-registered Bon Secours Hospital Galway.
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 Only a secondary source (association, aggregator) supports the certification. Prof. Jack Kelly 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] |
SEC | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. Named with role (‘Consultant, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon’) and stated to be on the Medical Council Specialist Register, but no street address for the Galway clinic is published on the pages checked (used here from the clinic's own CRO-registered address). [site-home] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 8 | 2026-08-31 |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Legal entity and registration number published and matched in the register. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Stated to be ‘Registered on the Irish Medical Council’s Specialist Register’; no registration number is published. [site-home] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Quote not re-verified on 2026-08-31; previous value 3 withdrawn. |
? | ? | 12 | 2026-08-31 |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-08-31 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. No consent, risk, revision-policy or complaint-route information found on the pages checked. [site-home] |
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-home] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-home] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-home] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-home] |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Prof. Jack Kelly [site-home] [iaps] | Consultant, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: The Kelly Clinic Limited · 590163 [cro]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site-home]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified yes →
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (Fitness to Practise Inquiry Notifications — Medical Council of Ireland (published sanctions and High Court notices)): no entry found [ftp]
What we could not verify
- M3 · Basic medical licence
- M7 · Advertising honesty
- 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://thekellyclinic.com/ |
|---|---|
| Address | Suite 9 Consultants Clinic, Bon Secours Hospital, Renmore Road, Renmore, Galway, H91 KC7H |
| City | Galway |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-home | https://thekellyclinic.com/ | clinic's own site | identifiability, named physician, role, treatment menu, superlative claims | 31 August 2026 |
| iaps | https://www.plasticsurgery.ie/find-a-surgeon/ | secondary | Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons membership list names Prof. Jack Kelly ("Jack Kelly FRCSI, FRCS (Plast) MD"); 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 |
| hiqa | https://www.hiqa.ie/areas-we-work/find-a-centre/bon-secours-hospita… | official register | HIQA Find a Centre detail page: ‘Bon Secours Hospital Galway’, Centre type Healthcare, Address Renmore Road, Renmore, Galway. | 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 590163, company_name "The Kelly Clinic Limited", registered office Suite 9 Consultants Clinic, Bon Secours Hospital, Renmore Galway, H91KC7H; Normal status; NACE 8622.0. | 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 "Kelly" tied to a plastic surgery practice. | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://thekellyclinic.com/ (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.