Skinworks
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 75.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #12 of 22 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Single-site cosmetic plastic surgery clinic in Vancouver. Responsible plastic surgeon named with role and tied to this address; specialist certification and medical licence matched by name in the official British Columbia physician register. The facility is separately listed in the official non-hospital surgical facility accreditation list under the same director and address. No legal entity name is published by the clinic.
Registers read for the jurisdiction: BC.
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. CPSBC registrant directory: 'Carr, Nicholas John', practice type 'Specialty practice - plastic surgery', address matches this clinic exactly. [board] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. |
SEC | 16 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name (surname stem and given name or initial; a second identifier where the name is ambiguous). CPSBC: MSP 06966, Licence status Practising, Licence class Full. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [board] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Found with a spelling discrepancy; or the location is registered under the name of the host facility at the same address (a practice inside a hospital or a centre); or the value comes from a mirror or from a directory that shows no status — the profile names the record holder verbatim. CPSBC non-hospital facility accreditation list, edition dated August 18, 2026: "Skinworks Surgery Centre", 3568 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6N 3E6, Director: Dr. Nicholas Carr, Class 1: General Anesthesia, phone 604-733-9711. Postal code, director and phone match the clinic exactly; the street number in the register differs by one digit from the number the clinic publishes for itself. [facility] [site-contact] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| 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. Complete scan of the clinic's own pages (home, about us, the two physician pages, pre- and post-operative care, contact): no operating company, legal form or registration number is named; the footer carries the trading name alone. [site-about-us] [site-contact] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers Logos without numbers. Physician credentials (MD, FRCSC) stated as text; no licence or registration numbers published. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-29 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. One unattributed superlative found describing the surgeon. [site-carr] Dr. Nick Carr is a leading Vancouver specialist in cosmetic plastic surgery |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-29 | |
| 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 Two or three. Aftercare and complication-avoidance guidance published for the pre- and post-operative period; no dedicated consent, revision-policy or complaint-route page found on the surveyed pages. [site-prepost] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-29 |
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Nick Carr, MD, FRCSC [site] [site-carr] [board] | Plastic surgeon | MSP 06966 |
| Dr. Dick Lee, MD, FRCPC [site-lee] | Anesthesiologist | not published |
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://skinworks.ca/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | 604-733-9711 |
| Address | 3578 West 41st Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6N 3E6 |
| City | Vancouver |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://skinworks.ca/ | clinic's own site | clinic name, address, phone, physicians named with role, menu | 29 August 2026 |
| site-carr | https://skinworks.ca/dr-nick-carr/ | clinic's own site | surgeon bio, credentials, marketing language | 29 August 2026 |
| site-lee | https://skinworks.ca/dr-dick-lee/ | clinic's own site | anesthesiologist name, role, credentials | 29 August 2026 |
| site-prepost | https://skinworks.ca/cosmetic-surgery/pre-and-post-operative-care/ | clinic's own site | aftercare and complication-avoidance guidance | 29 August 2026 |
| board | https://www.cpsbc.ca/directory | official register | 2-step: GET https://www.cpsbc.ca/directory (form_build_id) then POST https://www.cpsbc.ca/directory?ajax_form=1 (ps_last_name=Carr) then GET https://www.cpsbc.ca/directory/search-result — 'Carr, Nicholas John', MSP 06966, Licence status Practising, Licence class Full, Practice type Specialty practice - plastic surgery, address 3578 41 Ave W, Vancouver, BC, V6N 3E6, phone 604-733-9711 | 29 August 2026 |
| facility | https://www.cpsbc.ca/files/pdf/NHMSFAP-Accredited-Facilities.pdf | official register | pdftotext extraction — 'Skinworks Surgery Centre', 3578 41 Ave W, Vancouver, Director: Dr. Nicholas Carr, Class 1: General Anesthesia, Phone 604-733-9711 | 29 August 2026 |
| notifications | https://www.cpsbc.ca/news/public-notifications | official register | GET — no entry for Carr among nominal/non-nominal disciplinary actions or interim orders (5 pages checked) | 29 August 2026 |
| site-contact | https://skinworks.ca/contact/ | clinic's own site | clinic address and phone as the clinic publishes them; no operating legal entity named | 20 September 2026 |
| site-about-us | https://skinworks.ca/about-us/ | clinic's own site | clinic description, address and phone; no operating legal entity named | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 22 September 2026 | sources.notifications.kind: "official" → "secondary" (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 7 — directory route "cpsbc-practice-type" is secondary provenance) |
| 22 September 2026 | sources.facility.kind: "official" → "secondary" (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 7 — directory route "cpsbc-practice-type" is secondary provenance) |
| 22 September 2026 | sources.board.kind: "official" → "secondary" (Methodology v1.3 (owner rulings 2026-09-22) — rule 7 — directory route "cpsbc-practice-type" is secondary provenance) |
| 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) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M4: 5 → 4 (Register entry re-read: the street number in the accreditation list differs from the one the clinic publishes, so the match is a name-and-address match with a discrepancy rather than an exact match (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M5: null → 2 (Re-run: complete scan of the clinic's own pages for a named legal entity (v1.2 pass 1).) |
| 29 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.