Training is always a subject of debate in the unregulated aesthetics field. Something that has become apparent is the popular use of ‘Harley Street trained’ in practitioners’ marketing to indicate their level of competency for clinical practice.
However, what does this phrase actually tell patients about our level of training, and is it enough to say that you are ‘Harley Street trained’ or ‘qualified’ to assure your patients’ safe and successful results?
In order to fully understand why being ‘trained on Harley Street’ is a such an often-used claim of credibility, we need to look back a little at the history of Harley Street itself and why it became synonymous with the ‘expert practitioner’. Cavendish Square – from where Harley Street begins – was developed around 1717 and construction of Harley Street began in 1729, on land owned by Edward Harley, the Earl of Oxford and Mortimer.1 The…
