The clinics doing it properly can't prove it.
Buying through licensed channels, training staff beyond the minimum, keeping a real complication protocol — all of it costs money, and from the outside it looks identical to a clinic doing none of it. We're building an independent standard that makes the difference visible, for injectables and for devices.
Pre-launch · no clinic verified yet
Example Clinic
REC-0000 · SPECIMEN
Practitioners
Verified — 3 practitioners, registration current, no restrictionsConfirmed against the relevant college's public register
Botulinum toxin
Verified — licensed establishment, confirmed by the supplierEvery declared source confirmed. Clinic warrants the list is complete
HA fillers
Verified — licensed establishment, confirmed by the supplier
Biostimulators
Not assessedNot applied for. Outside the scope of this assessment
Laser & IPL devices
Verified — device licences active, establishment licensedSerial numbers confirmed with the supplier
Current operators
All current operators received manufacturer or supplier device training on this deviceRe-declared at every renewal, because a device outlasts the staff
Operator training
Not assessedNo register of laser or IPL operators exists in British Columbia, and training requirements are not set by any regulator
Clinic process
Verified — consent, complication and follow-up protocols documented
Assessed
00 Month 0000 · valid 12 months
Specimen
This is the form a verification record will take. No clinic has been assessed and nothing here describes a real business. The amber rows mark categories outside the scope of an assessment — most often because they were not applied for. They are never a finding against a clinic.
What we verify
Three things, each traceable to a record we didn't write.
Public register
Practitioners
Registration status and any restrictions, confirmed against the public register of the relevant regulatory college. Nothing self-declared.
Health Canada + supplier
Products & devices
That every source is a licensed establishment — checked against Health Canada's listings, then confirmed in writing by the supplier itself. Device serial numbers included.
On site
Clinic process
That documented protocols exist for consent, complications and follow-up — and that someone in the building can describe them.
What we don't verify
The scope is published, not buried.
- Operator training for laser and IPL.There is no register of operators in British Columbia and no regulator sets training requirements. Certificates are issued by the same companies that sell the courses, and advertised hours range from four to over two hundred. We state that gap on every record rather than paper over it.
- Clinical skill, technique and treatment outcomes.Not assessed, and not assessable from documents.
- Anything outside the categories a clinic applied for.Clinics choose which categories to have assessed. Absence of a category is never described as a failure or a concern, and no clinic that falls short is ever published — the category is simply not listed.
A verification without a stated scope isn't a verification. It's an advertisement.
For clinics
One signature. No invoices, no pricing, nothing your competitors could use.
We designed this so that participating costs you almost nothing and exposes nothing commercially sensitive.
Stage 1
Practitioners
We check the public register. Nothing required from you at all.
Stage 2
Products and devices
You tell us who you buy from and sign an authorisation for them to confirm the account. They confirm it directly to us. You never send us an invoice, a price or a term.
Stage 3
Records — optional
Purchase samples, lot traceability and cold chain, for clinics that want the highest grade. Entirely at your election.
If there's a gap
If there's a gap
Anything we find that can be fixed, you have two months to fix it. If you don't, that category simply isn't listed. We never publish a list of clinics that fell short, and absence of a category is never described as a failure. We'd rather help you pass than catch you out.
For suppliers
We're asking distributors one question, not for money.
What we ask
Does this clinic hold an account with you?
Yes or no, plus the categories you supply — and only ever with your customer's written authorisation. For devices, whether the serial number matches your records. Nothing about volumes, pricing or terms.
What we never ask
Sponsorship, funding or endorsement
Suppliers don't fund this programme and have no role in setting the standard or influencing any outcome. Clinics pay an assessment fee, payable whether a category passes or not. That's what keeps it independent.
