who used to practice on Harley Street has now been suspended. The muscle relaxant can only be prescribed by a Nurse Prescriber, Dentist or Doctor but this should be only done face to face with the patient. The recent BBC report By Guy Lynn highlights below what was happening;

"Leading Harley Street doctor suspended"

BBC News, London, By Guy Lynn

"Dr Harrison said he had performed more than 50,000 remote consultations since 2005 A Harley street doctor exposed in a BBC London investigation encouraging nurses to order potentially dangerous muscle relaxant drugs in one person's name for use on another has been suspended. Dr Mark Harrison will not be able to practise as a doctor for up 18 months pending a review.

GMC Assess Fitness to Practice

The General Medical Council (GMC) will decide whether he will face a fitness to practise panel. The muscle relaxant can normally only be prescribed by doctors or designated professionals [eg Nurse Prescribers]. If Dr Harrison faces a panel he will be assessed by the GMC's Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service. It comes after the GMC banned doctors remotely prescribing injectable cosmetic medicines, such as the muscle relaxant, on the phone, fax or online, without a face-to-face consultation. Niall Dickson, chief executive of the GMC, said: "There are good reasons why these are prescription-only medicines, and we believe doctors should assess any patient in person before issuing a prescription of this kind." Remote prescribing was common practice at Dr Harrison's company Harley Aesthetics - one of the UK's largest purchasers of the anti-wrinkle drug. After concerns were raised to the BBC, an undercover researcher secretly recorded one of Dr Harrison's training days and joined his team of nurses. Dr Harrison was secretly recorded explaining how prescriptions for the muscle relaxant could be obtained in the names of friends and family and the stock of drugs could be used on walk-in patients. If nurses were unable to reach him on his mobile at any time when they had a patient expecting immediate treatment, he encouraged them to inject their patients anyway and he would phone the patient later.

'Little bit naughty'

"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 after the event," Dr Harrison was secretly recorded saying. "That may be after the event, which is a little bit naughty." The BBC then phoned him to see if this would really happen, claiming a new patient had already been injected. Dr Harrison left a message on the voicemail of the "patient" and later sent a prescription. He said the use of prescriptions in one person's name for the treatment of others was "common, almost universal practice throughout the aesthetics industry" and had "no consequence for patient safety". Dr Harrison said the practice of a doctor phoning a patient after an injection "would never be encouraged and would never be acceptable for a new patient". He added: "The decision to treat has been taken by the nurse and the doctor informed retrospectively." Dr Harrison went on: "I can confirm that I take my professional and moral obligations to both the patients who have treatments and the nurses who use the service extremely seriously." Dr Nigel Mercer, a leading cosmetic surgeon and former president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, was shocked by the BBC's findings. He said: "This is a wake-up call. It's not an appropriate way for providing a medical service." Read the full BBC story on their website.

Face to Face Anti-wrinkle Consultation

Qutis Clinics specialise in anti-wrikle treatments in Witney, Abingdon and Thame. Some of our nurses are also able to prescribe anti-wrinkle injections so treatment can be in the same day. We (only) offer face to face consultations which are currently free in Witney and Abingdon. We have been treating customers successfully for over 15 years. Our Nurse Specialist were some of the first to begin anti-wrinkle treatments in the UK and have trained many doctors, dentists and surgeons.