Here at Cosmetica Training we are always keen to teach our delegates the most appropriate and effective treatments that are available in the UK. We offer a wide range of aesthetic training, including botox courses, dermal filler courses, chemical peel and dermaroller courses.

Currently we are looking for models to participate in our in house trial for Botox. You will be treated by one of our tutors Read the rest of this entry »

Last year we launched our unique e-learning approach to aesthetic training for all botox, dermal filler & combined courses. We also opened the UK’s first dedicated aesthetic training centre in Liverpool.

Over the past twelve months we have successfully trained hundreds of medical professionals Read the rest of this entry »

If you are considering entering into a career to administer Botox or Dermal fillers you will need to firstly undertake an appropriate training course. Our courses can be taken over one or two days. You can choose to apply for our Botox training course or our combined course. On the first day you will learn how to administer treatments to models that we supply. If you choose to do our two day course you will also learn how to correct patients that you have already treated when they return for a review appointment. To gain all the assistance you require to set up a successful business the second part of day two will be of Read the rest of this entry »

Following our Facebook announcement on Monday about a new machine that is coming to Cosmetica on 14th November, we have been inundated with emails and phone calls from our loyal models asking for more information about the Lynton Promax Lipo and to book the limited special offer appointments available between 14th-23rd November.

The Promax Lipo, or K9 as we have affectionately called it (see pictures below!) is designed to maximise your body treatments providing:

• instant inch loss
• dramatic cellulite reduction
• body & facial skin tightening

Spot the Difference

Has K9 been resurrected?

Special Offer

We are currently offering appointments for just £38 (usually £100) and an exclusive four-treatment bundle for an amazing £140!

To book an appointment or to speak to one of our team about the treatments available please call 0151 722 6070 and choose option 2.

In your aesthetic career a time will come when you are limited in what you can treat, indication wise.  It is inevitable that you will notice that using a dermal filler to fill out a nasolabial line will not look as good as you once thought and when you treat crow’s feet your client is left with movement that you have not reduced.   As we age we lose volume in our face and our malar fat pad descends to a lower position.  In this instance rather than treat the nasolabial line you will be best served treating the volume loss that has now been created.

Using a volumising product such as Juvederm Voluma, you can give volume to this area which will having a lifting effect on the lower face.  It restores a more youthful appearance and lessens the jowls that we see our clients pulling up at the jawline, simulating a facelift.  Non surgical treatments are not a replacement for facial surgery, however, they can give dramatic results which may leave our clients resisting a visit to the plastic surgeon.   Cheek augmentation and similar advanced non surgical treatments are not just aimed at the more mature clients.  We can undertake such treatments on those who are younger and in need of prevention or simply those who long for the structured cheek bones or ogee curve.

To be able to offer these treatments a qualified aesthetic practitioner needs to book on an advanced botox and dermal filler training course to obtain a certificate of competence to enable them to utilise their skills in their existing aesthetic clinic.  For details of what we cover please contact the office on 0151 722 6070 choosing option 1.

Social media can be a fantastic way to a successful branding of your business, but also serves to continuously connect you with your clients. Cosmetica interact with our clients using facebook to highlight what botox training courses in Liverpool we have coming up.

We also use facebook as a way to produce offers and special gifts. This week we had the pleasure in offering a free treatment to one of our facebook likers and due to the rules of facebook we are not allowed to name prize winners on our page.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the winner of our FREE treatment, after reaching 400 likes, is Nina M, from Buckley (we have not published her full name but will do when the prize is claimed).

Nina has 24 hours to claim her prize, if for any reason this is not claimed, we will pick another of our facebook likers as a winner who will also have 24 hours to claim their prize.

Professional guidance to Doctors, Dentists and Nurses has changed several times in recent months. Here at Cosmetica we try to keep up to date to give our customers the very latest news. We also provide a prescribing service to help nurses locate a suitably qualified prescriber to conduct consultations for their clients.

For the latest information on prescribing, including details of our prescriber service please click this link:  Prescribing information

In a time when the professional bodies are clarifying and amending their guidance on how their registrants should conduct consultations for patients receiving cosmetic treatments, the pharmacies are also now clarifying legislation.

A major pharmacy has released a statement to all of their customers highlighting the importance of only prescribing items suitable and appropriate for that one patient. They brought attention to off label prescribing suggesting that Botox 50 would be more appropriate considering its licensed indication.

Another large pharmacy is now only accepting scripts for cosmetic medicine that stipulates that a face to face consultation has taken place. If they receive a script that does not specify this, they will not dispense against it.

The industry is under strict scrutiny at present according to the pharmacy and as always, if a HCP works against legislation or their professional guidance, their insurance will be invalidated.

Following the BBC report of July 9^th in which he was secretly filmed admitting to the remote prescribing of Botox, Harley Street doctor Mark Harrison has been suspended by the GMC, it was announced yesterday. Dr Harrison is awaiting the news as to whether he will face a fitness to practice panel and remains unable to practice as a doctor for up to 18 months in the meantime.

This news serves to reinforce the message that GMC are serious about enforcing their latest guidelines for the prescription of Botox: doctors must only prescribe following a face-to-face consultation with the patient.

While the NMC guidance to nurses has not changed, it is a timely reminder to nurses to comply with appropriate guidelines – Botox may only be administered after a nurse prescriber, dentist or doctor has issued a prescription following a face-to-face consultation.

Here at Cosmetica we will continue to monitor developments for the benefit of all the medical professionals who are our customers. Our training courses will include the latest advice on compliance with professional guidance, and our Prescribing Service is available to help nurses continue to administer Botox while protecting their NMC registration.

We have received a number of enquiries from nurses concerned by the expected changes to GMC guidelines.

Please note that changes to GMC guidelines DO NOT affect nurses in their ability to administer Botox.

All the GMC have done is brought their standards in line with the other professional bodies; NMC and GDC.

All patients wishing to undergo a Botox treatment have to be assessed by one of the following:

•  Doctor
• Dentist
• Nurse prescriber

The guidelines for all professionals now mirror each other in that:

Botox cannot be remotely prescribed

There appears to be some confusion as to what a remote prescription is and I would like to take the opportunity to clarify this.  A remote prescription is one that is written in another location to that of the patient, typically without an assessment.   Some doctors, such as Dr Harrison in the BBC undercover report, have allegedly been using the telephone to prescribe for nurses’ patients.  This has not been allowed by the NMC for some time and now the GMC have stated telephones should not be used to prescribe Botox for patients.  This is because the patient needs to be seen face-to-face by the prescriber who is working with the nurse.

What does this mean for nurses who are not prescribers?

There is absolutely no difference to nurses. This is because the NMC have stated nurses can only administer Botox once a face-to-face consultation has taken place with the prescriber

I don’t have a prescriber who can undertake face-to-face consultations. Can I still administer Botox?

Yes you can: Cosmetica Training offers face-to-face consultations for nurses. We have a database of prescribers throughout the UK and we continue to recruit new prescribers each month.

I am due to take a training course. Will I be able to administer Botox after training?

Yes you will. We will provide detailed advice during the courses including an analysis of different scenarios that you may encounter and how they can be integrated into your practice in compliance with professional guidelines.   Please rest assured that you will be able to administer Botox following successful completion of your course and this will pose no difficulty for you.