Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readGoogle's Maps content policy now explicitly bans directing staff to chase a set number of reviews and directing staff to solicit reviews that name a staff member, on top of the existing ban on pressuring patients to review while still on the premises. The wording reached Google's support pages in April 2026.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readThe Medical Board of Australia approved its cosmetic surgery endorsement framework back in 2023. As of the Board's most recently reviewed pages, no training program has been accredited and no doctor has been granted the endorsement, so the credential exists in law with no living examples yet.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readAHPRA's guidelines for higher risk non-surgical cosmetic procedures, in effect from 2 September 2025, explicitly strengthen the ban on testimonials from social media influencers. A separate federal rule already banned paid influencer testimonials for the treatments themselves since 1 January 2022, and the regulator reaffirmed it in a 2026 consultation.
Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readSection 16C of the Privacy Act makes your clinic accountable for what an overseas vendor does with a patient's data, and APP 8 sets the reasonable steps you must take before that disclosure happens. This guide breaks the rule into the vendor categories a clinic or dental practice actually runs and what each one needs on file to satisfy an exception.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readThe TGA formally added unapproved peptide products to its compliance priority list on 10 June 2026, citing a joint operation with the Australian Border Force and Victoria Police that seized more than $2 million in peptides, PIEDs and steroids. If your clinic's treatment menu mentions peptides, this is the newest line on the regulator's watch list.
Vikas Thakur / / 9 min readTikTok's cosmetic surgery ad policy, last updated April 2026, now lets approved advertisers run before-and-after imagery, but its own page limits the exception to "USA & Canada." Copy that ad creative into an AU campaign and the exception does not travel with it.