Medicinal treatment services – October 2025
Published 4 November 2025
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The following companies/websites have amended their advertising following MHRA action on complaints to ensure that unlicensed or Prescription-Only Medicines are not promoted to the public, and/or that factual statements about medicines are not misleading:
- Hexpress Healthcare Ltd t/a HealthExpress (eye care service)
- Hims & Hers UK Ltd t/a forhims (hair treatment service)
- pricemeds.co.uk (medicine price comparison service)
- Skin & Vain (aesthetics service)
- Woodbury Practice Limited (aesthetics service)
The list relates to specific advertising action taken on a particular date and is no endorsement of the ongoing practices of the companies/websites.
You can see details of MHRA guidance for highlighting medicinal treatment services in Appendix 6 of the MHRA Blue Guide.