Last month, the regulator for Scottish independent healthcare services, Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS), announced that non-prescribing medical practitioners can no longer perform dermal filler injections without a prescriber present on-site, although when this will come into effect remains unclear.1
For many practitioners in Scotland, particularly non-prescribing nurses, this announcement came as a shock, and has left them uncertain about their future within the specialty. In a document emailed to aesthetic practitioners in early December, HIS laid out the updated healthcare rules, including the new requirement contained within Regulation 12 of the ‘Requirements as to Independent Healthcare Services’.2 It stated in the report that the presence of the prescriber is intended as a safety precaution for the scenario in which hyaluronidase is required to dissolve dermal filler, and…
