Hospital Particular do Algarve — Unidade de Ambulatório, Alvor
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 73.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #24 of 32 ranked clinics · last checked 30 August 2026
No crown: crowns require register-verified gates, never a clinic's own claim.
Summary
Ambulatory unit of a private hospital group in Alvor with plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and aesthetic-medicine consultations across its Algarve units. Eight surgeons are named on the Portuguese and English fronts; the surgeon registered with the unit is certified in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery in the board register. The establishment, the operating company and its tax number are matched in the ERS facility register and in VIES. The ERS sanction register carries a closed entry for the operating company, so the register status is under clarification (hold H1).
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 | 3 out of 5 · reviews: 734 |
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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 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, status current; the registered specialty matches what this physician advertises. Board register: licence 35449, specialty Cirurgia Plástica, Reconstrutiva e Estética; matches the advertised segments and the specialty recorded for the unit. [om-ramos] [ers-colab] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Named; role unclear. |
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). Cédula 35449 taken from the ERS collaborator index and matched by number in the Ordem dos Médicos register. [v1.3 2026-09-22: the number is not printed on the clinic's own pages (audit not_published) — matched by name] [om-ramos] [ers-colab] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-22 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. SRER registration 136592; establishment name, address and state Registado match. [ers] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| 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. |
OFF | 8 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No licence, registration or certificate numbers published on the specialty pages read. [site-en] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty One or two soft superlatives or non-absolute safety promises. The breast-augmentation entry presents the implant brand's lifetime warranty alongside an aspirational claim; no outcome or safety guarantee by the provider was found. [site-en] The dream of many woman of having larger firmer breasts can now come true with silicone implant with a lifetime guarantee. |
SEC | 12 | 2026-08-30 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 3 language fronts (home, pt, en) on 2026-09-17: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-17 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. Complaint route published (national complaints book); no consent, risk, aftercare or revision document found on the specialty pages. [site-pt] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-08-30 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
- H1 · Clarification requested — A clarification has been requested from the clinic. The profile is provisional and carries no crown until it is resolved. [ers-sanc-entry]
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-en] [ers] |
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| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site-en] [ers] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site-en] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site-en] [site-pt] |
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. José Nuno Ramos [site-pt] [ers-colab] [om-ramos] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | 35449 |
| Dr. António Cardoso Tavares [site-pt] [ers-colab] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | 17331 |
| Dr. Carlos Parreira [site-pt] [ers-colab] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | 30454 |
| Dr. Tiago Baptista Fernandes [site-pt] [ers-colab] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | 39027 |
| Dra. Joana da Costa e Silva [site-pt] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | not published |
| Dra. Rita Passos Meireles [site-pt] | Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon | not published |
Legal entity: HOSPITAL PARTICULAR ALGARVE SA · 502271043 [ers] [vies]
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: aesthetic in general clinic (focus adjustment -2) [site-en]
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://www.grupohpa.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +351 282 420 400 |
| Address | Estrada de Alvor, Cruz da Bota, 8500-322 Alvor, Portimão |
| City | Portimão |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site-en | https://www.grupohpa.com/en/medical-specialties/plastic-cosmetic-su… | clinic's own site | English front: procedure menu, named surgeons, unit list, advertising wording | 30 August 2026 |
| site-pt | https://www.grupohpa.com/pt/especialidades-e-consultas/cirurgia-pla… | clinic's own site | Portuguese front: same procedure menu and same named surgeons, complaints-book link | 30 August 2026 |
| site-am | https://www.grupohpa.com/en/medical-specialties/aesthetic-medicine/… | clinic's own site | aesthetic-medicine menu and physicians for the Algarve units | 30 August 2026 |
| ers | https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/pesquisa/DetalheEstabelecimento.aspx?id=471654 | official register | GET https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/pesquisa/DetalheEstabelecimento.aspx?id=471654 — SRER establishment HOSPITAL PARTICULAR DO ALGARVE - UNIDADE DE AMBULATÓRIO, registration 136592, state Registado, address Estrada de Alvor, Cruz da Bota, 8500-322 Alvor, entity HOSPITAL PARTICULAR DO ALGARVE SA, NIF/NIPC 502271043 | 30 August 2026 |
| ers-colab | https://www2.ers.pt/dmz/PesquisaPrestadores/PesquisaColaboradores?n… | official register | GET with headers x-api-key: <public client value, not recorded — read it from the page bundle at query time> and Referer: https://www2.ers.pt/DMZ/Pesquisa/Pesquisa.aspx — the 686 plastic-surgery collaborators; José Nuno Ramos cédula 35449, António Tavares 17331, Carlos Parreira 30454 and Tiago Baptista Fernandes 39027 are registered at establishment 471654 | 30 August 2026 |
| om-ramos | https://ordemdosmedicos.pt/api/v1/doctors/search?licenseNumber=35449 | official register | GET https://ordemdosmedicos.pt/api/v1/doctors/search?licenseNumber=35449 — José Nuno Dos Santos Veiga Ramos, specialty Cirurgia Plástica, Reconstrutiva E Estética, inMemoriam false | 30 August 2026 |
| vies | https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/PT/vat/50227… | official register | GET https://ec.europa.eu/taxation_customs/vies/rest-api/ms/PT/vat/502271043 — isValid true, name HOSPITAL PARTICULAR ALGARVE SA, seat Cruz da Bota, Estrada de Alvor, Portimão | 30 August 2026 |
| ers-sanc | https://www.ers.pt/pt/intervencao-sancionatoria/ | official register | POST https://www.ers.pt/umbraco/surface/Combos/GerarCombos id=<year/type node>&page=<n> for every year 2011–2026 and every sanction type — 694 decisions indexed | 30 August 2026 |
| ers-sanc-entry | https://www.ers.pt/pt/atividade/intervencao-sancionatoria/seleciona… | official register | GET https://www.ers.pt/pt/atividade/intervencao-sancionatoria/selecionar-ano/2024/coima/listagem/pco-047-2023/ — process PCO/047/2023, infrator Hospital Particular do Algarve, S.A., decision date 19/10/2023, process state recorded as closed | 30 August 2026 |
| fronts | https://www.grupohpa.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — home: https://www.grupohpa.com/en/ | pt: https://www.grupohpa.com/pt/ | en: https://www.grupohpa.com/en/insurance-agreements/ | 17 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| 30 August 2026 | Initial publication; every citation and the clinic site re-checked on this date. |
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