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Standards we teach against

MHRA.Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency.

The MHRA is the UK government agency that regulates medicines, medical devices, and blood components. In aesthetics, it's the body that decides what's a prescription-only medicine, what's a device, and what's safe to use, and on whom.

What MHRA does

The actualremit.

  • Licenses medicines used in non-surgical aesthetics (e.g. botulinum toxin), including who can prescribe, supply, and administer.
  • Regulates medical devices used in clinic, including dermal fillers, energy-based devices, and microneedling tools.
  • Investigates adverse incidents and product safety concerns through the Yellow Card scheme.
  • Sets the supply chain rules for products entering the UK, including post-Brexit divergence from EU regulation.

How I teach against it

Where MHRAshows up in the curriculum.

I teach the MHRA-relevant rules explicitly: what counts as a prescription-only medicine, who can lawfully prescribe vs administer, what supply documentation looks like, and where most unintentional breaches actually happen.

Acne Decoded references MHRA-licensed treatments and the prescribing chain that sits behind them. The RAG Pathway dedicates a module to the legal essentials, consent, capacity, supervision, prescribing pathways, indemnity, and how the MHRA framework underpins all of it.

Practitioners leave my courses able to read a product's MHRA licence and understand what it actually permits, rather than relying on a supplier's marketing claim.

AU courses that reference MHRA

Where to startlearning.

Clinical · £150

Acne Decoded

  • 11 sections.
  • Self-paced.
  • £150.
  • Acne pathophysiology
  • NICE-aligned protocols
  • Treatment decision-making
  • Severity assessment

Regulatory · 4 weeks · £499

From Regulation to Reputation™, The RAG Pathway

  • 8 modules.
  • 4 weeks.
  • £499.
  • JCCP & MHRA-aligned practice
  • Scope-of-practice clarity
  • Risk-gap auditing
  • ASA-safe marketing
  • Defensible documentation

Education that holds up

Compliance keeps you legal.
Reputation keeps you in business.

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