A directory of aesthetic clinics would require us to verify the registration, insurance, prescribing arrangements and premises of every entry. We cannot verify any of that about any provider, and a wrong entry about a medical provider is a real harm. So this site does the thing a finder should have been in the first place. It teaches you to check a clinic yourself, using public registers you can open in another tab, and it publishes the checking procedure rather than the answer.
We do not sell clinic listings, lead generation, enquiry forwarding, sponsored guidance, badges, awards or verification marks to any provider of aesthetic treatment, at any price.
A publication whose product is teaching people to verify cannot also sell placement to the people being verified. That refusal is the whole of our credibility, so we publish it in full at what we refuse to sell, along with what we do sell and what the money cannot buy.
Documents, registers and verification as material objects. Every image on this site is of paper, ink and filing, because that is what the work actually is.
A numbered procedure block. Which register to open, precisely what to type into the search box, what a good result looks like, what an ambiguous result looks like, and what a clean result does not prove. There are more than thirty of them on this site.
Most of the harm in this field comes from a real credential being read as proof of something it never covered. Every badge, registration, rating and mark on this site carries a block listing exactly what it does not establish.
Public registersThere is no single register of aesthetic clinics in the United Kingdom. There are registers of people, of companies, of authorised financial firms, and two voluntary list...
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Premises and licensingPremises regulation attaches to defined activities, not to the word clinic, and the four nations draw the boundary differently. A great deal of cosmetic injectable work s...
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Prescribing and medicinesBotulinum toxin is a prescription only medicine. Most dermal fillers are devices. That single distinction decides whether an assessment is required by law, who must be in...
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Consultation and consentConsent is a process, not a signature, and professional guidance sets out in writing what the process should contain. That gives you something better than a feeling about...
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Money and contractsA cosmetic treatment is a contract. The Consumer Rights Act 2015 applies, the Consumer Contracts Regulations 2013 may apply, credit agreements are separate contracts with...
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Evidence and complaintsReviews, advertising claims, product claims and complaint routes. What each one can tell you, what it cannot, and which body has the power to act when something has gone ...
6 proceduresBotulinum toxin is a prescription only medicine, so an assessment and a prescription are required. Most dermal fillers are medical devices, so in most of the United Kingdom no prescription is required and no professional registration is legally required to inject one into an adult. A great deal of cosmetic work sits outside premises registration in every nation. England has legislated for a power to license non surgical procedures, and a power is not a scheme.
None of that means treatment is unsafe or that practitioners are unqualified. It means that for a large part of this field, every protection you have is one you asked for. This site is the list of questions.
One email a month. What changed in the registers and the law, what a new rule actually requires, and one procedure written out in full. No clinic is ever recommended and none can pay to appear.
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