Public bibliography of every external authority cited on this site. Last verified .
tummytuck.co.nz is an information directory, not a medical practice. We try to be specific about where each fact comes from — which regulator, which legislation, which dataset. This page is the public bibliography. If you find a claim on the site that is not supported by a source listed here, please email info@tummytuck.co.nz and we will either add the source or fix the claim.
The bodies that register and audit the doctors we refer to. Use these to verify any surgeon’s credentials before booking.
NZ doctor register. Search the public register to confirm vocational scope. For tummy tuck surgery the scope must read “Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery” — not just “General Surgery” or “Cosmetic Medicine”.
Cited on: /cost, /auckland, /wellington, /christchurch, /financing, /faq, /privacy-policy, /disclaimer
Direct link to the public registration check.
Cited on: /cost, /auckland, /wellington, /wellington/cost, /christchurch/cost
FRACS is the post-graduate fellowship in surgery. Plastic and reconstructive surgery fellowship requires 5+ years of specialty training after medical school. The public register lists active fellows by specialty and country.
Cited on: /cost, /auckland, /wellington, /christchurch, /faq, /financing
NZAPS membership requires FRACS plastic surgery fellowship. The Find-a-Surgeon directory is a useful cross-check on top of the MCNZ register.
Cited on: /cost, /auckland, /wellington, /christchurch, /faq, /financing
For when an abdominoplasty has documented medical indication and may be partially funded.
Public-sector funder. Apronectomy (skin-only removal after significant weight loss) with documented chronic intertrigo, back pain, or hygiene impact may be considered. Cosmetic abdominoplasty is not publicly funded.
Cited on: /cost, /apronectomy, /financing, /faq
IRD publishes the approved grounds for KiwiSaver early withdrawal. Cosmetic surgery is not on the list. The serious-illness ground has a high bar (life-threatening or permanent functional impairment).
Cited on: /cost, /financing, /mini-tummy-tuck, /faq
NZ’s no-fault accident compensation scheme. Does not fund cosmetic surgery. A treatment-injury claim is the only realistic ACC pathway, and only when a prior surgical injury has occurred.
Cited on: /cost, /financing, /faq
The codes we work to when writing copy on a YMYL medical site.
Bans unsourced superlatives (“best surgeon”, “leading clinic”) and outcome promises (“guaranteed result”, “pain-free”) in therapeutic advertising. We audit every page against the prohibited-claims list at build time.
Cited on: /disclaimer, scripts/audit-medical-claims.cjs
Statutory basis for the ASA Therapeutic Code. Prohibits unsubstantiated cure / treatment claims.
Cited on: /disclaimer
Statutory basis for the MCNZ register and the protected-title rules — only registered doctors can use titles like “surgeon” in NZ.
Cited on: /disclaimer
NZ privacy framework that applies to all personal information we hold (name, contact, demographics).
Cited on: /privacy-policy
Privacy code that applies specifically to health information. Rule 11 governs disclosure of health information to third parties — the legal basis for our surgeon-referral consent flow on /quote.
Cited on: /quote, /privacy-policy, /disclaimer
Prohibits misleading conduct in trade. Applies to KiwiSaver-eligibility claims, pricing claims, and surgeon-credential claims.
Cited on: /terms-of-service, scripts/audit-medical-claims.cjs
The complaints body if you believe we have mishandled your personal information.
Cited on: /privacy-policy
Where the clinic data on tummytuck.co.nz comes from.
tummytuck.co.nz does not maintain its own surgeon registry. All clinic, suburb, FRACS, NZAPS-listing and Google-rating data is pulled at build time from ClinicCompare’s verified snapshot — the cross-Pangaea single source of truth for NZ medical clinic data.
Cited on: Every clinic card on /auckland, /wellington, /christchurch, /wellington/cost, /christchurch/cost
The live machine-readable facts.json endpoint we sync from. Contains 16 verified FRACS plastic surgery clinics across Auckland (6), Christchurch (6), Wellington (3), Tauranga (1) at last sync.
Cited on: scripts/sync-cliniccompare-data.cjs
Clinic Google ratings and review counts come from Google Places. ClinicCompare syncs them periodically; we read the already-synced values. We do not curate, edit, or weight ratings beyond a published formula (log10(reviews + 1) + NZAPS-listing-bonus).
Cited on: Every clinic card on city pages