2010 will go down as the year for the boom of the registered online health clinic. In the last year, the Care Quality Commission has started to allow online health services to register. In additions there is now clearer guidance by the MHRA on what treatments can be prescribed online, and with continued support by the British government for the spread of online health, and the perfect climate for a boom in online clinics is made.

The bottom now means that patients now have clear guidance, on which clinics to buy from and which to stay clear from. If the clinic is CQC (Care Quality commission) registered and the despensing pharmacy is registered with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, then the patient will be safe and protected by UK regulations.

The service provided by online clinics has also been much improved by the addition of guidance from the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency), and the GMC (General Medical Council). The guidance states that clinics can prescribe treatments online, as long as they can safely prescribe and diagnose the condition online, through the use of a questionnaire form. This puts many treatments such as narcotics, statins, and betablockers off the list of legal treatments to prescibe as a doctor would need to see the patient face to face in order to diagnose. However, the regulations do allow for many other treatments to be prescribed for conditions and a need that can be easily diagnosed online.

The list of treatments allowed are all impotence treatments such as viagra, weight loss treatments like xenical, antimalarial, the pill, and propecia for hair growth.

So if you are suffering from any of the conditions listed above, and can not get treatment on the NHS then there is finally an afordable, regulated, alternative service available online.