Whether it is appropriate and safe for botox injections to be administered by a non-medical person in a non-medical setting.

Prescription Only Medicines (POMs), like Botox, are on the whole prescribed for individuals by a medical practitioner to be administered by the individual or to that individual by a third party who might be a nurse, carer, relative or other "lay" person. In the latter case, the doctor must be content that the third party is competent to fulfil this role. Botox is licensed for use in the UK for certain purposes, although not for cosmetic purposes. It is, however, not uncommon for drugs licensed in the UK, to be used outwith their market authorisation i.e. licensed uses. In such instances, however, the doctor providing or prescribing the medicine bears a greater degree of medico-legal responsibility for such action.