The Kelly Clinic — Galway
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 53.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #13 of 15 ranked clinics · last checked 18 September 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 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 Prof. Jack Kelly; 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 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 — 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 Record found: name, address and status match. |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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, meet-the-team, consultant procedures, privacy policy, cookies policy, terms of service and refund 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-home] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-18 | |
| 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 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 text (“Ireland’s leading…”, “Ireland’s premier…”, “Dublin’s Leading Clinic”); no guarantee of an outcome. Pages loaded: home page, about, meet-the-team and consultant procedures. [site-home] The Kelly Clinic is Ireland’s leading plastic surgeon-led skin and laser clinic |
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-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]
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 SECProf. 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]
- M1 · Specialist certification of the responsible physician SECThe Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons lists Prof. Jack Kelly in its published member list.
[iaps]Jack Kelly FRCSI, FRCS (Plast) MD
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
- 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://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 |
|---|---|
| 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.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://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.