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We didn’t have to go far in our hunt to find podiatrists offering services to the public as ‘qualified aesthetics practitioners’ now happily promoting dermal filler and botulinum toxin injections, some even with a banner outside the clinic declaring that they now do Botox! – A complete no-no in terms of medicines regulations given its POM status! Here are just a few of the operators that we found from a quick Internet search showing a wide distribution across the country – Holistic Health Facial Aesthetics just outside Newcastle-Upon-Tyne run by Podiatrist Michelle Scott and The WalkWell Clinic in Rugby where Podiatrist Vicky Morley now includes facial aesthetics.
The latter is the clinic with the banner, which also compounds their lack of awareness of the regulations governing the advertising of prescription-only toxins to the public as they are quite prepared to promote it on Twitter as well.
As well as new operators, we found a variety of companies offering such training courses to podiatrists, including this one run by MasterClass Presentations Ltd in Tamworth; a company which was set up by two Health Professionals and runs a variety of courses for UK Doctors, Dentists, Nurses and Podiatrists in facial aesthetics and mesotherapy.