An independent eye on the UK private clinic market.

UK rules for non-surgical cosmetic procedures vary by the treatment, its purpose, the practitioner and the UK nation. Botulinum-toxin products are Prescription-Only Medicines. Dermal fillers are not generally prescription-only medicines; depending on composition and intended use, a product may be regulated as a medical device, a medicine or a general product. Requirements for premises and practitioners therefore differ, and there is no single public register that answers every question a patient may have about a clinic.

The premises itself may need to be registered with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) depending on which regulated activities it carries out. The clinicians involved may appear on the GMC (doctors), GDC (dentists) or NMC (nurses) registers. Voluntary schemes — Save Face, JCCP, BCAM, BAAPS, BAPRAS and others — add another layer, but joining them is a choice, not a requirement. Each of these is a separate website with its own search tool and its own terminology.

Unmist exists to close that gap: for each clinic we pull together what the public registers and the clinic’s own website actually say, in one place, for free — without rating, ranking or vouching for clinical quality, which no public-record summary can credibly do.

Unmist is a trading name of Northlight Technologies Ltd, an independent UK company (number 17513274, registered in England and Wales). Not a clinic, not a regulator, not a marketing agency, not a venture-funded startup. The registered office and contact details are published in the Privacy notice. You can also contact us via hello@unmist.co.uk.

We’d rather you judge what we publish on its own merits: every fact on a factsheet links to the source it came from.

The public factsheet is currently free to patients. We do not currently plan to place core public-record information behind a paywall.

The bills will be paid by clinics that subscribe to Unmist Verified — an upgrade that is not yet on sale, which will let a clinic add their own bio, curate their team, and earn a transparent gold “Verified by clinic” badge on their factsheet. The badge will never move a clinic up in results. The order stays alphabetical or by distance, regardless of who pays.

We don’t accept paid placement and we don’t insert ads into the factsheet. We don’t take commission on patient bookings or on how many patients a clinic receives. When the Verified tier opens, its subscriptions are intended to fund Unmist.

We do not rate clinics. We do not produce an Unmist score. We do not publish reviews. We do not aggregate Trustpilot or Google ratings into a single number and present that as our opinion. The quality of clinical care is not something a public-record summary can credibly judge — and any platform that claims it can is selling something.

What we do publish is the practitioners a clinic names on its own website, each with a link to check them yourself on the GMC, GDC or NMC register (where we have checked a register ourselves, the factsheet says so), a link to the official CQC register for the premises (the health and care regulator for England), what their pricing transparency looks like, what their before/after gallery practices look like, and where each fact came from. Unmist does not itself confirm anyone’s registration. The patient gets the same information a careful researcher would gather — in seconds.

The long-form case for why Unmist exists in the first place — covering the UK regulatory gap, the Keogh Review, the Health and Care Act 2022 and the patchwork of voluntary registers — is at /why-unmist.

Patient-side guides on verifying a CQC registration, questions to ask before booking anti-wrinkle injections, and what hair transplant clinic websites don’t tell you sit in the Unmist journal.

Press inquiries, quotable stats and a statement ready to attribute live at /press.

Patient correction, journalist follow-up, clinic enquiry, cease-and-desist letter, regulator question — all to the same place: hello@unmist.co.uk. We aim to respond the same working day on weekdays, but cannot guarantee availability.