Credentials
Who is treating you, and how to check
Aesthetics is a lightly regulated industry in which anyone can currently call themselves a practitioner. Here is exactly what stands behind this clinic — and how to verify it, here or anywhere else.
01Professional registration
Registered Nurse
Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC)
The NMC register is public and searchable by anyone. It confirms that a nurse is registered, in good standing, and subject to a regulator that can remove their ability to practise. Ask any injector for this — and then check it.
NMC PIN 22A2789E — search it on the public register to confirm
Search the NMC register →BSc (Hons) Nursing
Undergraduate degree
A full nursing degree — anatomy, physiology, pharmacology and clinical assessment as a foundation, rather than a short course taken after the fact.
Verifiable via the NMC register
02Critical care
PGCert Critical Care
Manchester Metropolitan University, 2025
Postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing. Ten years in the NHS, four of them in critical care — where assessing before acting, recognising early deterioration and sterile technique are daily practice rather than an add-on skill. Ashleigh still works in the NHS as a critical care / intensive care nurse alongside the clinic.
Manchester Metropolitan University, 2025
ANTT Assessor
Aseptic Non Touch Technique
Assessor level, meaning qualified to assess other clinicians' aseptic technique rather than merely trained in it. Infection control is the foundation of any injectable practice, and it is the part patients never see.
NHS trust assessed
Immediate Life Support (ILS)
Resuscitation training
Current resuscitation training. Relevant because injectable treatment carries a small risk of anaphylaxis and other acute events, and the person treating you should be able to manage one rather than call an ambulance and wait.
Certification current
03Aesthetic education
Advanced facial anatomy
Royal College of Surgeons, with BAMAN — June 2026
Cadaveric facial anatomy education at the Royal College of Surgeons, studying alongside surgeons and facial anatomists. This is the training that makes higher-risk areas — the tear trough, the nose — defensible to treat at all, and it is uncommon outside surgical practice.
Royal College of Surgeons, June 2026
Royal College of Surgeons →Practising in aesthetics since April 2025
Specialising in regenerative medicine and facial harmonisation
Deliberately narrow. Rather than offering everything, the clinic concentrates on regenerative treatment and full-face harmonisation — which is where the anatomy education and the critical-care background actually earn their keep.
Clinic founded 2025
Nine years as a professional makeup artist
Prior career
An unusual pairing with nursing, and a useful one. Nursing supplies anatomy and physiology at a cellular level; nine years of makeup artistry supplies proportion, balance and an eye for the small details that make a face look like itself.
Prior professional practice
04Memberships
Member
British Association of Medical Aesthetic Nurses
BAMAN is the professional body representing medical aesthetic nurses in the UK, and it sets the standards this clinic works to. Membership is open only to registered healthcare professionals — which is itself a filter.
Membership number 3794264848
BAMAN →Member
Aesthetic Complications Expert Group
ACE is the UK expert group for aesthetic complications: guidance, protocols and a clinician network for managing things when they go wrong. It is a working commitment to complication management rather than a badge.
Membership current
ACE Group →Finalist, Rising Star of the Year
BAMAN Awards 2026
Shortlisted in the national awards run by the professional body for medical aesthetic nurses. This is a finalist place, not a win, and it is described that way everywhere on this site.
Announced August 2026
BAMAN Awards →05Insurance and governance
Medical malpractice and indemnity insurance
Medical malpractice £5 million · Professional indemnity £5 million · Public and general liability £5 million · Product liability £1 million
Placed through Enhance Insurance Services, underwritten by Jensten Underwriting (Commercial) Ltd with Lloyd's Syndicates Beazley AFB 2623 / 623. Policy GU/2440-2 in the name of Ashleigh Trickett T/A Charis Aesthetics, covering 1 May 2026 to 30 April 2027. Every treatment offered here sits within the scope of the policy. Ask any practitioner for this — it is a reasonable question, and cover that excludes the treatment you are booking is worth nothing.
Policy GU/2440-2 — current to 30 April 2027
Complications pathway
Hyaluronidase held on site
Trained in the recognition and management of vascular occlusion, with hyaluronidase held on site and a direct contact number given to every patient before they leave. Referral arrangements are in place where a complication needs care beyond this clinic.
See the safety page
Before you book anywhere
Five questions worth asking any injector
- Are you a registered healthcare professional, and what is your registration number?
- Who prescribes the prescription-only medicines you use, and have they assessed me?
- Do you hold hyaluronidase on site, and are you trained to manage a vascular occlusion?
- What is your medical malpractice insurance, and does it cover this specific treatment?
- What happens if something goes wrong — who do I call, and when?
A practitioner who is comfortable being asked these will answer them without hesitating. One who is not has told you something useful. More on how safety is handled here, and on who writes the guides.
Get in touch
Ask me any of these in person
A practitioner comfortable being asked will answer without hesitating. Bring the list.