Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readSection 133 of the National Law says a time-limited offer is fine as long as its terms and conditions are stated. A separate 2025 advertising guideline says urgency itself can breach a practitioner's duty of care, and disclosure does not fix that. A clinic that only adds terms and conditions has closed one exposure and left the other open.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readAHPRA's guidelines do not lay out one single booking sequence. Five separate obligations, on age, consultation, informed consent, cooling off and payment, each fix what has to happen before what, and a flow that gets any one out of order breaks the substance of the rule it serves.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readDate of birth belongs before the payment step, not after it. AHPRA's cooling-off rule for under-18 patients and its financial-gain-versus-duty-of-care obligation both depend on knowing a patient's age before any money changes hands.
Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readBuy now pay later became regulated credit on 10 June 2025. Here is what that means for the payment plan section on a cosmetic clinic's website, and who actually needs the credit licence.
Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readNSW Health confirmed the Medicines, Poisons and Therapeutic Goods Regulation 2026 commences 5 November 2026, 77 days from this article's publish date. Its cosmetic medicine section pushes clinics toward one clinical record a prescriber can open, not a booking widget, a CRM and a paper file working alone.
Vikas Thakur / / 8 min readA tick box saying "I am over 18" collects nothing and proves nothing. AHPRA's guidelines carry targeted advertising bans protecting young people and a mandatory seven-day cooling off for under-18s. Both need a real date of birth, captured early.
