What each treatment does and does not do. What Healthcare Improvement Scotland actually regulates, and the gap it leaves. What things cost, drawn as bands with the reasoning shown. What a careful consultation contains. And who picks up the phone if something goes wrong.
Each section answers one question a Glasgow patient reliably arrives with, and answers it without trying to sell you the answer.
Every entry answers the same three questions before anything else: what the treatment physically does to tissue, what it cannot do whatever the marketing says, and...
Open treatments5 guidesWe publish price bands rather than prices. A single number would be a fabrication, because the same treatment name covers very different amounts of product, time and...
Open prices6 guidesScotland regulates cosmetic treatment differently from England, and the difference matters to you at the point of booking. These pages set out who is registered with...
Open regulation5 guidesThe consultation is the only part of the process you can assess before committing. These pages describe what a careful one contains, what consent should actually...
Open consultation5 guidesComplications are uncommon but they are not rare enough to ignore, and the question of who manages one at nine o'clock on a Sunday night is a question to settle before...
Open complications3 guidesWe have not assessed any clinic in Glasgow, so we do not publish lists of the best ones. What we publish instead is the criteria, the questions and the reasoning, so...
Open choosingBecause we have not assessed any of them. We have not visited premises, read complication logs, watched consultations, checked prescribing arrangements or followed up patients. Nobody who has not done those things is in a position to tell you which clinic is best, and a ranking published without them is a marketing product wearing a journalist's coat.
So the ranking is replaced by the thing a ranking was supposed to stand in for: the criteria. How to choose an aesthetic clinic in Glasgow sets out what to verify, in what order, and what each answer tells you. It takes longer than reading a top ten. It is worth more.
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