Dr Leah wins the day in the Battle of ‘The Apprentice’
The final episode of The Apprentice aired tonight on BBC1 at 8.00pm and saw Lord Sugar taking on Dr Leah Totton as a business partner with a personal investment of £250,000. Luisa Zissman with a proposed wholesale bakery business narrowly lost out to Leah's business plan for a chain of Medical Cosmetic clinics to be Lord Sugar’s Apprentice for 2013. The nation was on the edge of their seats to find out whether Lord Sugar would take the safe option of baking or the cosmetic route, which for him, has a moral dilemma.
Yet Leah’s new business venture proposal is not a new concept, as already open for business in central Exeter we have the luxurious Radiance MediSpa, which already provides this service with clients flocking from all over the South West. With 11 sumptuous treatment rooms Radiance offers pioneering treatments not found anywhere else in the region and some not available outside of London; yet at affordable prices.
The standards for cosmetic practice recommends that only doctors, dentists and nurses of appropriate training should provide non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as Botox. Radiance MediSpa which opened in spring 2013 was launched by Dr Ros Debenham, a qualified GP with 22 years’ experience and renowned aesthetic doctor together with daughter Katie Debenham - a specialist laser therapist. The state-of-the-art centre dedicated to skin health and rejuvenation has bought ground-breaking and non-invasive skin and body treatments to the city. The 7,300 sq ft MediSpa boasts impressive treatment rooms as well as a dedicated gym for personal trainer sessions, a conference room and training area plus a high-end hairdressing salon.
Dr Ros Debenham, a local finalist in the NatWest Devon Venus Awards for ‘New Business of the Year’, carries out all injectable procedures in line with the recent publication by The Royal College of Surgeons and is ethical in the treatments she carries out.
Dr Ros Debenham MB ChB MRCGP Co-owner of Radiance MediSpa says “With recent press about only professionals being the ones to administer cosmetic injectables it is interesting to see Lord Sugar has decided to invest in Leah Totton's business to provide anti-wrinkle injections, dermal fillers and chemical peels. It is also very welcoming to hear Leah's forceful response to Lord Sugar's ethical concerns. Maybe the best evidence of an aesthetic practitioner's morals is in their refusal to do a treatment. I certainly have no reservations about advising against treatments or even refusing them. In contrast, that is what has enabled me to build my list of loyal clients of whom so many refer friends.
"One word of advice that I would have is to make sure that the clinic you attend can offer a wide range of treatments & Cosmeceuticals (skin care products only available through practitioners). If not they will merely be dealing with the 'symptoms of ageing' and not slowing down and reversing the ageing process. 'Collagen stimulation is key' and 'ordinary facials should be forgotten'. Laser, Thermage, Chemical Peels, Dermaroller and Indiba treatments are powerful tools to keep and return that youthful yet natural look.”
