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I just want to make sure that I try
and look as different
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as I possibly can.
I'm on high alert for this one.
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It's difficult to know
whether someone has clocked
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that you're undercover or not.
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People could well get spooked by
the fact that I'm asking questions,
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but if you don't ask them, you might
not get the information you need.
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I'm inside this woman's house,
if something goes wrong,
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if she does realise
I'm a journalist,
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it's just me that's left
to deal with it.
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I'm Ellie Flynn, I'm 24
and I'm an investigative journalist.
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I've gone undercover to expose
the struck-off doctor...
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..who is providing botox
for young people nationwide.
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And fake medics...
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..who are breaking the strict
rules around prescription drugs...
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..and making a tidy
profit in the process.
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I mean, there is something very,
very dodgy going on here.
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Plastic surgeons report a dramatic
increase in people under 30
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getting procedures
like botulinum toxin injections,
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commonly known as botox -
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and campaigners warn of a national
bill of as much as £1 million a year
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for corrective surgery,
as a result of these injections.
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I'm investigating
whether the strict regulations
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around the use of this potent drug
are being followed,
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as sources tell me that,
in many cases, they aren't -
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which could be putting thousands
of patients at risk.
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If you want botox,
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you should ideally go to a trained
medical professional.
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They will assess
whether it's suitable for you,
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tell you the risks,
and can write you a prescription,
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before giving you the treatment.
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You can go to
a beautician for the injection,
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but it's illegal for a beautician
to supply botox
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that hasn't been prescribed for you,
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so you also need to see
a doctor, dentist,
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prescribing nurse or prescribing
pharmacist for your consultation
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and prescription first.
This must be done face-to-face.
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If you're prescribed botox without a
face-to-face medical consultation,
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it's against strict
General Medical Council guidance.
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Despite this, I've heard
it's happening
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at thousands of appointments
across the UK.
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I'm told beauticians regularly
offer botox
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which hasn't been properly
prescribed - but I need proof,
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so I've booked some appointments,
using the fake name Lucy.
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I'm going to go undercover
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because I think if I go in
and say I'm a journalist,
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they might follow procedure,
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whereas if I go in as a member
of the public with hidden cameras,
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I'll see exactly what happens
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when people do go to these
appointments normally.
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I want to check
whether they're qualified medics.
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I checked and she isn't
a licensed nurse,
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so I should first see
a qualified medic
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to get the required prescription.
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Needles come out quickly,
so I fake a sudden needle phobia.
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Both those beauticians
were about to give me botox
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without a proper consultation
with a prescriber -
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and one of them told me
that she's a registered nurse.
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I looked her up on the register,
and she's not on it.
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Posing as a registered medical
professional is a criminal offence -
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and our evidence shows that's
exactly what she was doing.
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They told me there were no risks,
no side effects,
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and they made it seem like a very
casual thing that everyone's doing.
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To see if it really is what
everyone's doing,
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I'm on my way to a botox party
in Windsor,
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where a legitimate
prescriber is present.
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Hi! Dr Sherpao. Hi, Dr Sherpao.
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So, how are you all feeling?
Good. Great.
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The champagne may be non-alcoholic,
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but there's still
a party atmosphere.
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How old are you guys? I'm 23.
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23. 27. 27.
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21. 21. Yeah.
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You're not having any botox,
are you? I'm not, no.
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Are you tempted?
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Um, a little bit.
See what all the fuss is about.
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When was the first time you had it?
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Was that four months ago?
No, when I was like 18.
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No way. Yeah. I've had it for,
like, five years, now.
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And do you think that people see
it as convenient as they would
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getting their nails
or their eyelashes done? Yeah.
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People want their nails done,
their hair done,
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their eyelashes done,
their lips done, botox,
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all part of that whole, you know,
confidence boost.
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So, in total, how many people do you
think you know who have botox?
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Over a hundred. Over a hundred?!
Yeah, everybody has it.
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I feel like I'm the only one
who doesn't any more.
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If botox has become such a basic
beauty essential,
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how bad can the risks of not doing
it properly really be?
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RADIO: Clyde One... News!
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First this morning, Clyde News
can reveal legal action has begun
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against botox clinics who are
avoiding industry regulation.
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It comes six months after...
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I've come to meet Marie, who this
year was given botox
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without first seeing
a medical professional.
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Hi. Marie? I'm Ellie. How are you?
Good. How are you?
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I'm good.
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So, what exactly happened to you?
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So, basically, I thought
I was looking a bit old and haggard,
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so I went and I started looking
into getting myself some botox,
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and there was a really
good deal online, so I went,
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and my face looked like
I had a stroke.
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Like, this eyelid was going up
and this one was going down.
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I couldn't pronounce Ps, Bs...
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Anything that you had to
put your lips together.
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Every time I took a drink
out of a cup,
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it was just pouring
out of the side of my mouth.
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So, what did you have to do?
I had to live like that.
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When you went to get botox, did
you know that there were any risks?
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I think people are so secretive
about getting botox... Yeah.
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Like, you don't open a magazine and
see botox gone wrong all the time.
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Yeah. So, you can
actually go blind from bad botox.
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She didn't ask me for any allergies.
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You could go into shock,
just like a peanut allergy.
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Everything could swell up
and it could be life threatening.
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So, if you'd met a doctor or
a nurse prescriber beforehand
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and they'd given you a face-to-face
consultation
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and spoken about all the risks,
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do you think you'd have felt better
about what happened?
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I think not explaining it to you
takes your choice away,
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so somebody who doesn't know
the risks at all,
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that maybe never had botox before,
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going in and doing it
and feeling like that,
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I think you do feel
totally violated.
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Knowing how real the risks are,
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I start to wonder who on earth
would provide these beauticians
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with botox prescriptions without
seeing the patient.
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There's doctors, dentists,
nurse prescribers
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who are knowingly
signing prescriptions
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for people to have this drug,
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but not having
these face-to-face consultations,
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which are so important.
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We've got all of this evidence
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of beauticians who seem to be
using a remote prescriber,
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but we haven't got any closer yet
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to finding who that remote
prescriber is.
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Campaigners Save Face and
Treatments You Can Trust
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tell me lots of beauticians
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might be unwittingly using rogue
remote prescribers.
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A number were in the North West,
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so I'm going undercover again
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to see if I can get some
concrete evidence
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about the medics
behind these prescriptions...
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..but it looks like some beauticians
aren't following the rules either.
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Needles come out very quickly
and I have to make my excuses
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because she hasn't taken
any of my medical details
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before the appointment,
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meaning the botox she's said
she'll inject me with
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hasn't been prescribed for me.
That's against the law.
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Because she also told me
she's a nurse,
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I double check the register
to make sure.
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On my way to another appointment,
I'm definitely feeling uneasy.
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Again, I've had no consultation
and no prescription for botox,
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so I want to know where
it's coming from.
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I'm keen to get away from the area
as quickly as possible.
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PHONE VIBRATES
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A few of the beauticians we went to
see, some of them have got spooked,
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and we were concerned that
they might be in contact.
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Cos I've had a text, saying,
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"Hello, so you are going around
to all practitioners,
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"asking for botox and to see if they
will do it without prescription.
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"Well, I'm afraid you won't get
any botox from any of us
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"without a face-to-face consultation
with one of our prescribers.
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"It would be unethical
to treat someone
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"without them having
a consultation with a prescriber
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"to discuss their medical history."
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I've also got a voicemail
from this same number.
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Let me just play that.
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"Ring me back. Thank you."
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A quick internet search confirms
that this is the phone number
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of a beauty academy.
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OK, so, Skin Base Aesthetics.
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It's a training
academy in the heart of Manchester.
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They do a botox course.
Foundation botox for beauticians.
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From what I can see,
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all those women I went to visit
trained at this Skin Base Academy.
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I've gone through their website
and old social media posts,
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and in 2015, Skin Base has shown a
kind of CV of a Dr Shreedhar Vaidya.
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They're calling him Shree.
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So, I've found a Shreedhar Vaidya -
it looks like he was struck off.
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He was struck off in 2008 -
and if you've been struck off,
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you have to be
clear about your GMC status.
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You know, it says here,
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"Our doctor teachers have more
than 30 years' experience."
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You'd assume from this
he's a registered medical doctor,
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when he's not.
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I wonder if these beauticians know
that this doctor isn't registered.
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They could be being fooled
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as much as anyone who's going to get
the treatment is.
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I wonder if Shreedhar Vaidya is
the source of the prescriptions -
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because I got a text
from a beautician
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who said I had to speak to
a doctor first.
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She also trained
at Skin Base Academy.
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So, it looks like she was trained
by this doctor, Shreedhar Vaidya,
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who's not actually a doctor,
and has been struck off.
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This is ringing some
alarm bells for me.
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I text this beautician
and make an appointment,
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using the fake name Sophie King.
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She tells me again that
I need to speak to a doctor first...
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..and confirms my phone number.
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A couple of days before my
appointment, I have a missed call.
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I've looked up that phone number
and it's Dr Shreedhar Vaidya,
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the other struck-off doctor
who teaches at Skin Base.
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Why would he call me
before my botox appointment?
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MOBILE RINGS
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Hi.
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OK.
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OK.
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Perfect.
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Thanks, bye.
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That phone call was ridiculous.
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The doctor did not ask me
if I'm breast feeding,
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if I'm pregnant,
anything about my medical history,
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he didn't tell me
what the risks were -
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and he didn't even see my face,
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so he has no idea if this is
a suitable treatment for me or not.
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Why would he call me,
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if there's going to be someone
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who is still able to properly
prescribe botox for me
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at the appointment?
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I head to Nottingham for the
appointment
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to prove that the man who called,
posing as a medical doctor,
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has actually arranged for my botox
to be provided.
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She's a beautician who is
connected to the group
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that I was meant to go
and see in Manchester.
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They might have put out a sort
of warning to anyone
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who went to that academy that
there's someone sniffing round.
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The other appointments I went to,
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I left because I said I was
too nervous
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to go through with
getting the botox.
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Whereas today, I'm pretending
I'm three months pregnant.
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So I'm going to try and make myself
look quite different
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to when I went to those
appointments.
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I've got a long brown ponytail,
which I'm going to put in.
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I haven't actually tried it yet,
so it might look crap,
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I might have to think of some
sort of alternative solution.
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I'm just actually going to
double check
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what my correspondence has been
with this beautician,
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because a lot of these
beauticians are connected,
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I don't want to be contacting
them all off the same phone.
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So I've had to get loads
of different phones and SIM cards,
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so that I can contact all of these
people from different numbers,
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so my phones are multiplying
in the night.
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I think this is the one
for the woman I'm seeing today.
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So, I'm booked in for 1pm.
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Good to go.
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I'm trying to remember all
of the fake personal details
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that I've made up.
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When you go, sometimes the
beauticians might ask you questions
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about where you live
and what you're doing in the area.
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I've forgotten that number.
07398 346453.
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07398 34...
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07398 34...
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I'm just looking up a hospital,
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to see where I might have gone
for a pregnancy scan,
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in case she asks me.
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OK.
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That's recording.
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Quick.
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So, she was definitely about
to give me the botox.
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There was no doctor there.
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This guy,
who's not even a registered doctor,
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he's pretending to be, which is
breaking a rule in itself,
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is somehow providing
a prescription-only medicine
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over the phone,
which you're also not allowed to do,
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and he must be putting so
many people at risk
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with that half-arsed consultation.
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I've discovered that this
struck-off Dr Shree
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is also the director of a clinic
called A Plus Aesthetics in Essex.
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I need to find out
whether my experience was a one-off,
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or if he's organising botox for
patients up and down the country.
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Keen to keep my cover, I send
in another member of the team.
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Hi. Yes, at 4:30.
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Botox, yeah.
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Hello?
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Oh, hi.
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It's the same doctor on the phone,
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and the so-called consultation
is as minimal as last time.
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He doesn't ask a single
relevant question.
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Thanks.
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Really? Yeah.
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I feel like I'm starting
to understand
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just how much money could be made
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by the people willing to flout the
guidelines and endanger patients.
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The only way of getting the truth
is to speak to the man himself,
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which is tricky, as he doesn't
have a clinic I can visit...
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..but I discovered that he rents out
a room in his home to paying guests.
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It's a risk, but I book myself in.
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I'm going to say that I'm
up in the area for the night
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for a family party,
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but I'm going to tell him
that I am a beautician
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and see if he mentions
botox himself.
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I just want to find out
more about this operation.
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I want to find out
how much money he's making,
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how he's getting the botox, how many
beauticians he's doing it for -
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and it can't be Dr Shree behind
every single prescription,
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so maybe he's got colleagues
or connections
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who are doing the same thing he is.
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I don't really know. We don't even
know if he's going to be in.
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Might be someone else
who lets us in.
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This could be a complete
waste of time!
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Hi. Hello.
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Thank you.
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I've been waiting for two hours
and there's no sign of him...
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YAWNS
Oh, my God!
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..but then I hear a noise
downstairs.
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I go down to
ask for a glass of water.
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Hiya. Hi.
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It seems like he's offering me
training, like all the other
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beauticians who may have been duped
into thinking he's a real doctor.
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So, Shree is admitting arranging
repeat prescriptions for botox
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that are then being used on patients
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that neither he nor those writing
the prescriptions
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have even heard of -
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and he says they don't want to know.
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No way.
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Shree's accounts for one month
showed hundreds of pounds
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next to each entry on a long
list of beauticians.
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So, this is how a struck-off doctor
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is facilitating prescription drugs
being sent to beauticians
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against strict GMC rules.
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He has a group of prescribers
he works with.
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Shree is explicit about avoiding
the clear-cut GMC guidance
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around face-to-face consultations.
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We left, and made our way
back to our hotel.
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I actually can't believe
that conversation.
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When I went in to do this
undercover work today,
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I wasn't sure what to expect -
and there was part of me
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that was like, "OK,
the most outrageous thing
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"that you might get from this
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"is he'll tell you exactly
how much money he's making,
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"how it works,
and he'll be really blase about it,"
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and I was like, that's probably
not going to be the truth.
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There must be, you know...
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He's not going to be
that up front about it -
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and there he was, just, you know,
outright telling me
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how much money he made, he showed me
his accounts, how he does it,
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and what a great idea it is for
anyone who wants to flout the rules,
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and he openly spoke about the rules.
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He mentioned the fact that you need
a face-to-face consultation,
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but was like,
"No, I don't think you do."
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So, I wrote to Dr Shree to tell him
that we'd filmed him
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making all of these admissions
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and he has completely denied
any wrongdoing.
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He has repeatedly declined
our invitation for an interview,
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he's demanded to see our footage,
and he's criticised our methods,
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and he's insisting that he's
completely entitled
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to call himself Dr Shree.
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While rare, botox does carry risks.
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If it's not being properly
prescribed to you,
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you might be in pain for days.
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You might end up suffering
a severe allergic reaction.
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You could have trouble eating
and drinking -
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or you might just not be
psychologically fit
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to have a treatment like this.
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Unless the law clamps down on people
like Shree and others,
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then I think it's just going to
continue,
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because it's an easy
moneymaking scheme
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for dodgy medics and for people
in the cosmetics industry
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who don't really care
about their patients' safety.