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What was most alarming was that the doctor suggested that if the nurses were ever unable to reach him that they should go ahead and inject the drug anyway and he would phone later to confirm the ‘verbal prescription order’. The doctor was quoted as saying, “If you can’t get a signal, what you might do is do the treatment and then you ring through with the details and the phone number and we guarantee we’ll always ring the client afterwards. That may be after the event, which is a little bit naughty.”

While the doctor in question has been widely condemned in the medical community, he claims that he has performed over 50,000 of these remote consultations since 2005 and not once had he had any complications or adverse patient reaction.

But Sally Taber, Director of the Independent Healthcare Advisory Service and the organisation Treatments You Can Trust said “This is wrong, it’s breaking the law and it’s not acceptable.”

At  face etc… medispa we agree. Director and Lead Clinician Sharon Moore said “We do not engage in the practice of remote prescribing, and have always stringently followed GMC/NMC regulations pertaining to prescribing. Any prescription-only medicines like Botox are obtained and treatments performed only after a full face-to-face clinical consultation with the patient. We firmly stand by these basic principles of clinical safety.” Sharon is a Nurse Independent Prescriber, meaning she is independently competent in making a decision to treat or prescribe. So the need for ‘remote prescribing’ never arises at face etc…medispa.

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