In a café in Christchurch, Dorset, our undercover researcher posed as a beautician seeking prescriptions and the Botox stock needed to inject clients at a new beauty clinic.
Across the table sat Poole-based senior nurse prescriber Sally Jackson, who ran a business supplying beauticians in this way. As a prescriber, she was required under professional rules to meet and examine each patient in person before issuing a prescription, the document that allows beauticians on the high street to inject.
Ms Jackson acknowledged those rules but then brushed them aside. "I'm supposed to do a face-to-face consultation. But we can do it the other way, WhatsApp me," she said.
When pressed on whether she should speak to clients who would be her patients, to whom she owed a duty of care, she was blunter still. "I should talk to them, but I won't," she admitted, dismissing the checks as "same old crap".
For £30, she issued a prescription, later obtained by the BBC from the pharmacy she directed, for a patient she had never met, whose details were sent to her on WhatsApp.
Once a private practitioner in London's exclusive Harley Street, Ms Jackson was now selling shortcuts to beauticians nationwide, telling our researcher: "I'm so busy."
She also offered to prescribe extra vials on a genuine patient's script - allowing beauticians to keep stock for clients and then inject them secretly, with no prescription in place. Prescribing a drug in one person's name for use on another constitutes fraud.
Ms Jackson ignored repeated requests for comment. When confronted in person, she replied: "I am not interested."
[SRC] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn82z3grpd3o
