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Running an aesthetic clinic means balancing patient care, growth and regulation. Whether launching, expanding or strengthening your arrangements, we provide clear, practical compliance support tailored to your clinic.

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01 — Legal, Regulatory & Governance Support

From £350

Fixed-fee quotations are available for defined matters.

Practical support for the decisions that affect your aesthetics business.

From establishing a new clinic to introducing a treatment, changing your practitioner model or responding to a regulatory issue, we provide practical guidance on the legal and regulatory considerations relevant to your business.

Our advice can cover:

  • Applicable legislation and regulations

  • Healthcare and aesthetics regulation

  • CQC considerations

  • Local authority licensing and requirements

  • Medicines and prescribing

  • Practitioner arrangements

  • Treatment consent

  • Consumer protection

  • Contractual arrangements

  • Complaints and disputes

  • Advertising and marketing

  • Data protection and information governance

  • Medical devices and products

  • Health and safety

  • Infection prevention and control

  • Regulatory developments and their implications

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02 — Clinic Legal, Regulatory & Governance Audit

From £950

Know where your business stands.

Our comprehensive audit examines the legal, regulatory and governance framework underpinning your clinic. We assess arrangements against the requirements relevant to your business, identifying risk, gaps and opportunities for improvement.

The review may include:

  • Applicable regulatory framework, CQC and registration considerations, local authority requirements, medicines and prescribing

  • Practitioner qualifications, registration, credentialing, scope of practice, supervision and treatment governance

  • Policies, consent, records, complaints, incidents, risk management, audit and monitoring

  • Website, social media, advertising, treatment claims, privacy and information governance

THE OUTCOME - A legal, regulatory & governance report - findings categorised by priority, with a practical action plan.

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03 — New Clinic Legal & Regulatory Set-Up

From £2,500

Build the right framework from day one.

Opening an aesthetics clinic involves considerably more than finding premises and recruiting practitioners. We help founders establish the legal, regulatory and governance framework required for their operating model.

Our support can include:

  • Regulatory assessment, CQC and local authority considerations, treatment and service requirements

  • Practitioner arrangements, medicines and prescribing governance, contractual documentation and consent framework

  • Policies, complaints and incident processes, data protection, advertising, risk management and pre-opening review

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04 — Governance & Documentation

04 — Governance & Documentation

From £1,250

Turn legal and regulatory requirements into a working governance framework.

A clinic’s compliance framework should not consist of policies sitting unused in a folder. We help establish practical systems that define responsibilities, manage risk and monitor compliance.

Our work can include:

  • Governance frameworks, policies and procedures, risk registers and compliance calendars

  • Practitioner governance, complaints and incident-management frameworks, audit and monitoring

  • Training and competency frameworks, document control and relevant business documentation

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05 — Practitioner & Clinical Governance

From £750

Robust governance around the people delivering your treatments.

Practitioner governance is fundamental to a well-run aesthetics business. We can advise on:

  • Qualification and registration checks, credentialing, scope-of-practice and onboarding

  • Competency documentation, training, supervision and prescribing arrangements

  • Treatment governance, incident escalation and ongoing monitoring and review

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06 — Advertising, Marketing & Consumer Compliance

From £350

Protect your brand while communicating responsibly.

Aesthetics advertising is an area of significant regulatory and reputational risk. We can review:

  • Website, Instagram and other social media, treatment descriptions and promotional campaigns

  • Before-and-after content, testimonials, reviews and treatment claims

  • Pricing, promotions and consumer-facing terms and information

Individual reviews and ongoing advertising compliance support are available.

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07 — Ongoing Legal, Regulatory & Governance Advisory

CAA Essential — From £250/month | CAA Strategic — From £550/month

Expert support as your business evolves.

Our ongoing advisory service gives clinic owners access to continuing support as their business grows, changes treatments, employs practitioners or responds to regulatory developments.

  • CAA Essential — legal and regulatory queries, compliance updates, document reviews, monthly advisory call and quarterly governance review

  • CAA Strategic — everything in Essential plus ongoing advice, practitioner governance, policy updates and priority support

  • Bespoke Advisory — for established, multi-site or more complex businesses

Expert support as your business evolves.

Our ongoing advisory service gives clinic owners access to continuing support as their business grows, changes treatments, employs practitioners or responds to regulatory developments.

  • CAA Essential — legal and regulatory queries, compliance updates, document reviews, monthly advisory call and quarterly governance review

  • CAA Strategic — everything in Essential plus ongoing advice, practitioner governance, policy updates and priority support

  • Bespoke Advisory — for established, multi-site or more complex businesses

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08 — Bespoke Legal, Regulatory & Governance Projects

Fixed-fee or bespoke quotation

For issues that don’t fit a standard package.

We can provide tailored advice on specific projects and business decisions, including but not limited to:

  • Practitioner-model changes

  • Significant regulatory developments and governance restructuring

  • Contractual arrangements, significant compliance issues and regulatory risk projects

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Carmichael Aesthetics Advisory Limited (company number: 17392161)
Registered in England and Wales
Registered Office: 18 Durford Road, Petersfield, England, GU31 4ER
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Independent legal, regulatory and governance consultancy.
Not an SRA-regulated law firm.