11/08/2025
⚠️ Important for anyone considering weight loss medications ⚠️
As a prescribing nurse, I fully support safe, legal, and ethical prescribing in aesthetics and healthcare.
Recently, there has been a worrying rise in unlawful supply of weight loss medications by non-prescribing practitioners in the UK often from unregulated sources and without proper patient screening or aftercare.
This puts patients at serious risk and also leaves practitioners exposed to legal action, invalid insurance, and potential regulatory consequences.
If you are considering weight loss treatment, please make sure:
✅ It is prescribed by a qualified medical prescriber
✅ The medication comes from a regulated pharmacy
✅ You have a thorough consultation and ongoing aftercare
All prescription only medications such as these weight loss treatments can only be prescribed in HIS regulated clinics in scotland, so if you are not receiving this level of care products can likely be counterfeit or not fit for human use in the UK.
Your safety always comes first. 💜
There is no legal mechanism for non-medics to prescribe these medications in the UK. Alarmingly, we are now seeing a rise in reports of non-prescribing practitioners unlawfully supplying weight loss drugs - often without appropriate clinical oversight, and sometimes through illicit or unregulated sources.
This not only jeopardises patient safety - it also places those practitioners at serious legal, ethical, and professional risk.
The implications are wide-ranging:
– Unregulated supply chains with no quality assurance
– Lack of appropriate patient screening and aftercare
– Insurance policies potentially rendered invalid
– Exposure to enforcement action from regulators and governing bodies
As an insurer dedicated to clinical safety and ethical practice in aesthetics, we strongly urge all practitioners to review their governance processes and stay within their scope of practice.
If you’re unsure about your responsibilities or the insurance implications of weight loss treatments, our team is here to help.