Amplecare
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 56.8/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #13 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Doctor-led aesthetic clinic in the Central Business District at Birkirkara offering anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers, polynucleotide and collagen-biostimulator treatments, mesotherapy, chemical peels, microneedling, ultrasound skin tightening and Candela laser treatments, alongside psychiatry and hormone-health consultations. Five doctors are named with their roles on the specialists page; the two aesthetic physicians are entered in the Specialist Accreditation Register under family medicine. The operating company is named in the site terms and matched by name in the Malta Business Registry.
Google Maps listing (reference, not scored)
What the clinic's public Google Maps listing showed when we read it: the rating other people gave, the number of their reviews and the hours the clinic itself publishes there. This block is a reference only — it does not enter the score, the rank, the ceilings or the holds, and we have not checked it beyond matching the listing to this record.
| Google rating | 5 out of 5 · reviews: 106 |
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| Opening hours as published on the listing |
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| Open the listing on Google Maps | Google Maps |
Source: Google Maps, read 4 October 2026. The listing was matched to this record by the clinic's website address, the clinic's phone number.
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 in the register with a current status; the register does not disclose the specialty, or discloses a different one (including “no specialisation”), and the clinic claims no protected title. The register's own line is shown on the profile. Both doctors named as aesthetic physicians appear in the Specialist Accreditation Register under family medicine, which does not cover the injectable and laser services advertised; the psychiatrist named on the same page appears under psychiatry. [board] [specialists] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Five doctors are named with their roles on the specialists page and tied to the single Birkirkara address published across the site. [specialists] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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 in the Medical Practitioners Principal List: 4148 Muscat Elizabeth, 8292 Castorina Walter, 4296 Mercieca Kristie and 4194 Micallef Christopher. Dr Louise Gatt was not returned by the list under that spelling. The clinic does not publish practitioner registration numbers. [council] [specialists] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Could not verify — no points, counts against coverage, not a negative finding. Reason: Queried, no match. Last attempt: facility_registry, 20 September 2026 — 0 rows across all 748 register rows for the terms Amplecare, Watercourse, Mdina Road, Central Business District, Birkirkara; the server-side search leg returned total_results 0 on Clinic_Medical and on Private_Hospitals. Every table of the Licenced Establishments register was downloaded in full and searched on the establishment name, the street and the locality in both the Maltese and the English spelling; no row for this clinic or this address was returned. The register carries no aesthetic-medicine category, and no conclusion about the facility is drawn from the absence. |
? | ? | 10 | 2026-09-20 |
| 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. The site's terms name VJS Amplecare Limited at the clinic's own address; C 24925 VJS AMPLECARE LTD. is present in the Malta Business Registry publications feed (Annual Return published 2026-08-26). Matched by name; the site's company and VAT number fields carry placeholder text rather than numbers. [terms] [company] This website is owned by VJS Amplecare Limited with principal offices at The Watercourse, Mdina Road, Zone 2, Central Business District, Birkirkara CBD2010, Malta. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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. Superlatives run through the about page; no outcome or safety guarantee was found. Pages scanned: home, about, specialists, collagen biostimulator, microneedling, terms and privacy policy. [about] As a premier doctor-led aesthetic clinic, we are passionate about enhancing your natural beauty and boosting your confidence from the inside out. |
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, 20 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 One. Pages loaded: home, about, specialists, collagen biostimulator, microneedling, terms and privacy policy. The treatment pages publish a side-effects and contraindications section; no consent document, aftercare instructions, revision policy or complaint route was found. [collagen] [microneedling] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
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] [terms] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [microneedling] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [collagen] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [specialists] |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dr Elizabeth Muscat [specialists] [council] [board] | Aesthetic physician | 4148 |
| Dr Walter Castorina [specialists] [council] [board] | Aesthetic physician, family medicine specialist and laser therapist | 8292 |
| Dr Kristie Mercieca [site] [council] [board] | Doctor | 4296 |
| Dr Christopher Micallef [specialists] [council] [board] | Psychiatrist | 4194 |
| Dr Louise Gatt [specialists] | General practitioner specialising in reproductive endocrinology | not published |
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site] [collagen]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
What we could not verify
- M4 · Facility registration — Queried, no match
- 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://amplecare.eu/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +356 21 480 826 |
| Address | The Watercourse, Mdina Road, Zone 2, Central Business District, Birkirkara CBD 2010 |
| City | Birkirkara |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://amplecare.eu/ | clinic's own site | brand, treatment menu, address | 20 September 2026 |
| about | https://amplecare.eu/about/ | clinic's own site | clinic description, superlative quote | 20 September 2026 |
| specialists | https://amplecare.eu/our-specialists/ | clinic's own site | named doctors with roles | 20 September 2026 |
| collagen | https://amplecare.eu/product/collagen-biostimulator-treatment/ | clinic's own site | treatment page with side effects and risks | 20 September 2026 |
| microneedling | https://amplecare.eu/product/dermapen-microneedling-treatment/ | clinic's own site | treatment page with side effects and contraindications | 20 September 2026 |
| terms | https://amplecare.eu/terms-and-conditions/ | clinic's own site | operating company name and registered address | 20 September 2026 |
| privacy | https://amplecare.eu/privacy-policy/ | clinic's own site | data-protection page, placeholder identifier fields | 20 September 2026 |
| board | https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/mcsac24.11… | official register | Medical Council Specialist Accreditation Register; GET https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/mcsac24.11.2025.pdf then pdftotext -layout, rows Muscat Elizabeth and Castorina Walter in the FAMILY MEDICINE list and Micallef Christopher in the PSYCHIATRY list | 20 September 2026 |
| council | https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/mcdocsfull… | official register | Medical Register, Medical Practitioners Principal List; GET https://medicalcouncil.gov.mt/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/mcdocsfull-1.pdf then pdftotext -layout, rows 4148 Muscat Elizabeth, 8292 Castorina Walter, 4296 Mercieca Kristie and 4194 Micallef Christopher | 20 September 2026 |
| company | https://api.baros.mbr.mt/api/queries/public/trigger/get_publications | official register | Malta Business Registry publications feed; POST https://api.baros.mbr.mt/api/queries/public/trigger/get_publications body {"data":{"publication_date":"2026-08-26"}} Origin: https://baros.mbr.mt, row C 24925 | VJS AMPLECARE LTD. | Annual Return | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (v1.1 pass 1). |
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.