Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readAHPRA gives most clinics a 30-day window to fix a non-compliant advertisement before enforcement escalates, once a complaint has been reviewed and assessed. This guide runs AHPRA's own three-step process, Review, Assess, Action, against your own website and ad accounts first.
Vikas Thakur / / 10 min readAustralia has no approved list of cosmetic procedures nurses can perform. The Nursing and Midwifery Board's 4-stage Decision-Making Framework, in effect since 3 February 2020, decides scope of practice case by case for the 512,306 registered and enrolled nurses on the national register as of March 2026.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min read87% of consumers read online reviews for local businesses, according to BrightLocal's Local Consumer Review Survey of US consumers in 2020, a figure that has since climbed to 97% by 2026. Australian-specific data shows a related pattern: 41% of Australian shoppers check reviews as an online safety precaution, per Power Retail's 2025 Ecommerce Payments Experience Report of 1,031 Australian consumers.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readThe Federal Court fined an Australian health booking platform $2.9 million in 2020 for editing and withholding patient reviews. A separate ACCC sweep found 37% of 137 businesses reviewed had broken the same rules. Here is what that means for a cosmetic clinic's review strategy.
Vikas Thakur / / 10 min readSection 133 of the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law sets a maximum advertising penalty of $60,000 for an individual and $120,000 for a body corporate, the same maximum that applies to unlawfully using a protected title. A skin cancer clinic's testimonial or before/after mistake carries the identical exposure as a cosmetic clinic's.
Vikas Thakur / / 10 min readA cosmetic surgeon in Australia must disclose at least 22 separate pieces of information before a patient's consent is valid. Injectables and other non-surgical procedures need 18. Both counts come straight from the Medical Board of Australia and AHPRA's own guidelines.
