McKeown Medical
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 50.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #28 of 29 ranked clinics · last checked 31 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Aesthetic medicine and surgery clinic trading as McKeown Medical, led by Dr Darren McKeown and operated by DJM Medical Clinics Ltd. His GMC record shows a current licence to practise and no Specialist Register entry. The facility matched in the Healthcare Improvement Scotland register and the operating company matched in Companies House with McKeown listed as a director.
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 (society, association, directory) supports the certification, while the official register of this class is open in the jurisdiction. Registered with a licence to practise; not on the Specialist Register (expected outcome for a non-surgical aesthetic-medicine-led practice). [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 search; no GMC number published by the clinic. [gmc] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-31 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Healthcare Improvement Scotland: "McKeown" — registered independent healthcare service. [his] |
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. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)] [ch] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
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. Multiple superlative phrases ("the best technology with the best medical care", "redefining excellence in aesthetic medicine") without a named issuer; no outcome guarantee found. [site] |
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 | 2026-08-31 |
| M9 | Patient documents One. A duty-of-candour statement and a general contact channel for concerns are published; consent, risk-disclosure, aftercare and revision-policy documents were not located. [candour] |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Darren McKeown [site] [gmc] | Founder and lead physician | 6128508 |
| Rhona Cameron [site] | Physician | not published |
Legal entity: DJM Medical Clinics Ltd · SC671613 [ch]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
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.
- M5 · Legal-entity traceability SECCompany register entry found for DJM Medical Clinics Ltd (SC671613); the clinic's own surface names neither the entity nor the number.[ch]
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.drdarrenmckeown.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 0141 370 0509 |
| Address | 167 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4SQ |
| City | Glasgow |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://www.drdarrenmckeown.com/ | clinic's own site | named physicians, address, phone, treatment menu, marketing language | 31 August 2026 |
| pricing | https://www.drdarrenmckeown.com/pricing/ | clinic's own site | treatment menu detail | 31 August 2026 |
| candour | https://www.drdarrenmckeown.com/duty-of-candour/ | clinic's own site | duty-of-candour statement, contact channel for concerns | 31 August 2026 |
| his | https://www.healthcareimprovementscotland.scot/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php | official register | POST action=ajax_service_search s=McKeown — matched "McKeown", registered independent healthcare service | 31 August 2026 |
| ch | https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/… | official register | legal entity, registration number, registered office, status, officer Darren McKeown | 31 August 2026 |
| gmc | https://www.gmc-uk.org/registrants/6128508 | official register | licence status, Specialist Register entry, fitness-to-practise history | 31 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | axes.M5: 5 → 2 (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — § F rule 6 — the clinic publishes neither the number nor the legal entity (audit not_published, entity name not found on the clinic pages; the entity was found by us — shown as a fact)) |
| 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.