Forty-five years of medicine, in your corner

Dr Frances has practised medicine for 45 years. Long before Skinfresh, patients were coming to her with the problems other clinics had run out of answers for: unexplained fatigue, hormonal chaos, skin that refused to behave. She built a reputation as the doctor you see for a second opinion, and for chronic illness that has resisted a first one.

That background is why Skinfresh works the way it does. When she opened the clinic in 2003, she brought whole-body medicine into a field that usually starts and ends at the surface. Skin is read alongside nutrition, biochemistry and hormones, because that is so often where the real answer sits, especially through midlife and menopause.

New Zealanders may also know her from television and radio, where she has spent years explaining health plainly, and from her book Well Woman. The same approach runs through the clinic: clear explanations, honest recommendations, and no treatment you do not need.