Kat & Co
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 81.6/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #9 of 29 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Day-case plastic-surgery clinic in the Edgbaston Medical Quarter. The founding surgeon is named with role and is on the GMC Specialist Register in plastic surgery, matching the clinic's advertised focus; the facility and the operating company are both matched in their respective public registers.
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. GMC Specialist Register: plastic surgery from 16 Apr 1999, 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 GMC reference number 3627590, registered with a licence to practise. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [gmc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. CQC location 'CC Kat Aesthetics' at 20 Calthorpe Road, B15 1RP matches address; provider Kat & Co Healthcare Limited. [cqc] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability The clinic names the legal entity or the responsible person in its legal notice and the record is found by name; or the number the clinic publishes leads to an entity with a different name that is tied to this location by the same address or the same responsible person. CQC-published provider Kat & Co Healthcare Limited matched to an active Companies House record, company number 06757981, previously named CC Kat Aesthetics Limited. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.cckat.com/ — matched by name] [cqc] [ch] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Physician numbers published; facility or legal-entity numbers not. Site publishes a CQC facility registration number; no individual physician GMC numbers 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 without a named issuer recur across the home, about and FAQ pages; no outcome or safety guarantee found. Pages loaded 2026-09-20: home, /about, /about/the-team-cosmetic-surgery-birmingham, /faqs, /treatments/surgical. [site] [site-about] Kat & Co is Birmingham's leading plastic surgery day clinic. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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. Aftercare referenced only in a patient testimonial; no consent, itemised risk/complication, revision-policy or complaints-procedure page found on the pages reviewed. [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 |
|---|---|---|
| Mrs Chien C Kat [site] [gmc] | Founder, Consultant Plastic Surgeon | GMC 3627590 |
Legal entity: Kat & Co Healthcare Limited · 06757981 [cqc] [ch]
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.cckat.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0121 456 7930 |
| Address | 20 Calthorpe Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 1RP |
| City | Birmingham |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.cckat.com/ | clinic's own site | physician, address, phone, menu, marketing claims | 20 September 2026 |
| gmc | https://www.gmc-uk.org/registrants/3627590 | official register | specialist certification, licence status, sanctions | 31 August 2026 |
| cqc | https://www.cqc.org.uk/location/1-6376607834 | official register | facility registration, provider name | 31 August 2026 |
| ch | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/… | official register | legal entity, registration number, status, previous name | 31 August 2026 |
| site-about | https://www.cckat.com/about | clinic's own site | clinic description and marketing claims | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M3: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name) |
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 4 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the number is not printed on the clinic pages (audit not_published); the clinic names the entity at https://www.cckat.com/ — matched by name) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M7: null → 3 (Re-run the lexicon scan on the live pages (v1.1 pass 1) after the citation re-check withdrew the earlier quote) |
| 31 August 2026 | axes.M7: 3 → null (Citation re-check: quote not found at https://www.cckat.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.