What insurers actually ask for
Practitioners often assume insurance follows automatically from a certificate. It does not. Insurers underwrite risk, and they ask a fairly consistent set of questions.…
The professional series
Guides that give straight answers.
Long reads, reviewed by named clinicians and date-stamped. They cover the things the sector leaves vague, from qualifications and licensing to insurance and careers, with sources for every claim.
Aurelia Institute professional series
The UK medical aesthetics training guides
2026 editions
Clinical pathways, regulation tracking and career planning.
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Consent conversations that hold up
A signed form is not consent. It is evidence that a conversation may have happened. The conversation is the thing that protects the patient,…
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How to read a filler instructions for use document
The instructions for use that come with a dermal filler are not marketing material. They are a regulatory document, and in a complaint or…
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What a complications drill actually involves
Most people book a complications course expecting a lecture. What they get, if the course is any good, is an afternoon of being made…
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The facial danger zone atlas
The vascular map every injector carries, written down. Zone by zone: the vessels that matter, why each area earns its reputation, and the plane…
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Treatment stacking without the burn
Combination protocols are 2026’s defining trend and nobody trains the interactions. Sequencing rules, the combinations that earn their popularity, and the ones that should…
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Treating the GLP-1 face
Rapid weight loss is reshaping clinic demand. What the GLP-1 face actually is, the assessment-led treatment ladder, when to say not yet, and the…
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After the certificate
The supervision cliff nobody warns you about. Who you may treat, the friends-and-family rules, a structured first 90 days, and how to build the…
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Aesthetics alongside your NHS job
The operating manual nobody publishes. Declaring secondary employment, Form R, study leave, revalidation inside and outside the NHS, separate indemnity, and the one-day-a-week arithmetic.
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What aesthetic practitioners really earn
The honest numbers page. Verified 2026/27 NHS pay against transparent per-appointment arithmetic, realistic year one to three diaries, and the £500-a-day claim dissected line…
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Complications in numbers
The UK has no true complication rate for injectables. What Save Face’s 2,824 complaints actually measure, which complications really present, and how training should…
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Advertising injectables without an ASA ruling
Botulinum toxin cannot legally be advertised to the public, hashtags included. What the CAP Code actually says, how the ASA and MHRA enforce it,…