Vikas Thakur / / 12 min readAHPRA's cosmetic procedure guidelines already changed once in 2025. If your consent form updated with them, can your records show which version a specific patient actually saw before they signed?
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.
Vikas Thakur / / 13 min readA single "I agree" checkbox proves a patient clicked, not what they were told. This guide sets out the fields a digital consent record needs to hold up if a complaint lands months later.
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 readAHPRA's before-and-after guideline for higher risk cosmetic procedures, effective 2 September 2025, does not ban the format outright. It sets six conditions, and breaching them carries a penalty of up to $120,000 per image. Here is exactly what is banned, what is conditionally allowed, and what consent a clinic needs before publishing one.