IMS Plastic Surgery
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #13 of 29 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-physician private plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery practice operating from Spire Leeds Hospital and Nuffield Health Leeds Hospital. Responsible surgeon named with role; on the GMC Specialist Register in plastic surgery, matching the clinic’s advertised focus; the operating hospital is found in the facility register. The practice names no legal entity on its own pages and does not publish its own licence numbers.
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 Found, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. On the Specialist Register in plastic surgery (from 30 Jun 2008), matching the clinic's advertised focus. [gmc] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-31 | |
| 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 Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). Matched by name; registration shows 'Registered with a licence to practise'. The clinic does not publish a GMC number. [gmc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Spire Leeds Hospital found in the CQC directory at this name and address. [cqc] |
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. The practice’s own pages name no legal entity. Home and contact-us pages loaded 2026-09-20; no company name, registration number or registered office is published and the site serves no privacy or terms page. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Single language front. Last attempt: clinic_site, 17 September 2026 — one language front; no hreflang alternates or language links The clinic site publishes one language front; nothing to compare. |
? | ? | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
| M9 | Patient documents None. Site navigation checked in full; no consent, risk, aftercare, revision-policy or complaint-route page found. [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 Ian Smith [site] [gmc] | Consultant plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | GMC 4426154 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
What we could not verify
- 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.imsplasticsurgery.co.uk/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0113 873 0270 |
| Address | Spire Leeds Hospital, Jackson Avenue, Roundhay, Leeds, LS8 1NT |
| City | Leeds |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.imsplasticsurgery.co.uk/ | clinic's own site | physician, role, hospitals, phone, procedures, navigation | 20 September 2026 |
| gmc | https://www.gmc-uk.org/registrants/4426154 | official register | specialist certification, medical licence, fitness-to-practise history | 31 August 2026 |
| cqc | https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-129798228 | official register | facility registration | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run the legal-entity leg on the clinic’s own pages (v1.1 pass 1): the clinic names no entity, so the M5 ladder gives brand only (v1.2)) |
| 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.