"Researchers posing as beauticians secretly filmed a nurse trading prescriptions over WhatsApp, a pharmacist coaching clients to falsify records and a bogus doctor handing over Korean toxin vials for cash. Medical rules require an in-person consultation and prescription to check Botox is suitable. Skipping these safeguards raises the risk of complications such as drooping eyelids, headaches or, in rare cases, respiratory failure or death."
"According to market analysts Precision Business Insights, the UK botulinum toxin market was worth about 115m in 2024 and is forecast to reach nearly 295m by 2031. Botox is a prescription-only medicine, and while many people now receive injections from high-street beauticians, the law requires a doctor, dentist, nurse prescriber or pharmacist prescriber to first examine the patient in person and issue a prescription confirming it is safe to proceed."
Secret filming captured nurses trading prescriptions over WhatsApp, pharmacists coaching clients to falsify records, and a bogus doctor selling Korean botulinum toxin vials for cash. Botulinum toxin is a prescription-only medicine and the law requires a doctor, dentist, nurse prescriber or pharmacist prescriber to examine patients in person and issue prescriptions before injections. Skipping these safeguards increases the risk of complications such as drooping eyelids, headaches and, in rare cases, respiratory failure or death. Regulators expressed concern and said they would review evidence. The UK market for botulinum toxin is rapidly growing, from about 115m in 2024 to a projected 295m by 2031.
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