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National Care Standards: Independent Specialist Clinics

DescriptionNational Care Standards for independent specialist clinics. These standards cover cosmetic surgery and treatment, treatments where lasers are used, and weight management treatments.
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Official Print Publication Date
Website Publication DateMarch 09, 2004

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National Care Standards: Independent Specialist Clinics

dignity • privacy • choice • safety • realising potential • equality and diversity

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Contents

Introduction

Helping you to decide on treatment (standards 1 and 2)
1 Gathering information and choosing a clinic
2 Guidelines and legislation

Deciding on treatment (standard 3)
3 Pre-treatment consultation

Your treatment (standards 4 to 14)
4 Consent
5 The decision is made, attending for treatment
6 Treatment
7 Preventing infection
8 Staff
9 Clinical effectiveness
10 Your environment
11 Medicines' safety
12 Information held about you and confidentiality
13 Children and young people
14 Expressing your views

Aftercare (standard 15)
15 Aftercare

Annex A: Glossary
Annex B: Useful reference material

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