Prescribing is by law
No course changes who may prescribe.
What a one-day course cannot give you
The right to prescribe. That is set by law, not by a certificate.
How we work
Prescribing, age, and what a certificate means
Botulinum toxin is a prescription-only medicine, and the law is specific: it must be prescribed by a prescriber who has assessed that individual patient face to face. Remote prescribing for patients a prescriber has never met is not lawful, and no training course confers a prescribing right on anyone. A course advertised as a route to independent injecting is selling something it cannot deliver.
The age rule is newer and absolute. Since 2021 it has been a criminal offence in England to administer botulinum toxin or cosmetic fillers to a person under 18 for cosmetic purposes, or to arrange it. Parental consent is irrelevant. Any clinic or academy willing to discuss it is telling you how it treats every other rule.
Then there is the certificate problem. This market is full of impressive-looking documents that no regulator stands behind, and delegates discover the difference when an insurer asks. Saying plainly whether a route is Ofqual-regulated, and naming the awarding organisation when it is, costs enrolments and is the only honest version.
Our principles
Three beliefs behind the method
Over 18s only
A criminal offence otherwise, consent or not.
Say what a certificate is
Regulated, or attendance. Not blurred.
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