St Mary's Clinic
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 55.1/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #15 of 17 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
General private clinic in Mosta combining radiology, dermatology, vein treatment and orthopaedics with an aesthetic and plastic-surgery menu that includes liposuction, body contouring, injectables, hair transplants and a non-surgical weight-loss programme. Three doctors are named with roles on the site; the premises appear in the Superintendence of Public Health register of licensed medical clinics with the founder as licence holder. Two of the named doctors hold specialist accreditations in fields other than the aesthetic services advertised.
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 | 4.6 out of 5 · reviews: 392 |
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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. In the Specialist Accreditation Register, Farrugia Francis (sive Frank) appears in the GENERAL / INTERNAL MEDICINE list and Vinokur Alexey in the VASCULAR SURGERY list; neither specialty covers the body-contouring and aesthetic services advertised. Portelli Jean Luc appears on the Medical Practitioners Principal List only. [board] [council] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. Three doctors named with roles and qualifications on the clinic's own about page, tied to the Mosta address. [about] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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: 2186 Farrugia Francis (sive Frank), 4761 Portelli Jean Luc, 3447 Vinokur Alexey. The clinic does not publish practitioner registration numbers. [council] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Licenced Establishments, Clinic_Medical table: 'St Mary's Clinic, 9/11, Triq il-Barrieri, Il-Mosta', licence holder Dr Frank Farrugia; the same premises also appear in the Clinic_Radiology table. Name and address match the site. [facility] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. Several superlatives run through the clinic's own about page; no outcome or safety guarantee found. [about] St. Mary's Clinic began as a vision to bring world-class healthcare to Malta — without patients ever needing to travel abroad. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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 One. Procedure pages publish aftercare instructions and a follow-up schedule; no consent document, risks section, revision policy or complaint route found. [lipo] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
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 [about] [site] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [surgery] [site] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [surgery] [site] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [about] |
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 Frank Farrugia [about] [council] [board] | Founder; internal medicine and aesthetics | 2186 |
| Dr Jean Luc Portelli [about] [council] | Hair transplant specialist | 4761 |
| Mr Alexey Vinokur [about] [council] [board] | Aesthetic & reconstructive surgeon | 3447 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site] [about]
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://stmarysclinic.com/ |
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| Phone | +356 21422888 |
| Address | 9/11, Triq il-Barrieri, Mosta MST 3250 |
| City | Mosta |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://stmarysclinic.com/ | clinic's own site | brand, service categories, contact details | 30 August 2026 |
| about | https://stmarysclinic.com/about-us/ | clinic's own site | named doctors with roles, address, hair-transplant and weight-loss services, superlative quote | 30 August 2026 |
| surgery | https://stmarysclinic.com/services/medical/plastic-surgery/ | clinic's own site | plastic-surgery menu | 30 August 2026 |
| lipo | https://stmarysclinic.com/services/medical/plastic-surgery/liposuct… | clinic's own site | liposuction service, aftercare and follow-up text | 30 August 2026 |
| gynecomastia | https://stmarysclinic.com/services/medical/weight-loss/male-gynecom… | clinic's own site | male breast reduction service | 30 August 2026 |
| rhino | https://stmarysclinic.com/services/beauty/fillers/non-surgical-rhin… | clinic's own site | nose reshaping and injectable services | 30 August 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, all 62 specialty lists searched by surname | 30 August 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 matched by surname | 30 August 2026 |
| facility | https://healthcarestandards.gov.mt/en/licenced-establishments/clinics/ | official register | Superintendence of Public Health Licenced Establishments; GET https://healthcarestandards.gov.mt/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=get_csv_data&page=1&rows=500&search=&sort=&order=asc&table_name=Clinic_Medical and the same URL with table_name=Clinic_Radiology | 30 August 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-read the clinic’s own pages for a named operating entity (v1.1 pass 1).) |
| 30 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.