Summary
Demand for surgical and non-surgical cosmetic treatments has spiralled in the past ten years among men and women, especially young women in the 18-34 age group, thanks to social media, reality TV and celebrity endorsements. A corresponding increase in ‘botched’ procedures is putting pressure on the NHS to solve problems created by unregistered, unqualified practitioners.
Official advice is to check your practitioner is qualified and has appropriate insurance. This makes sense but it’s not always easy to know where to look. That’s why the Professional Standards Authority have done the hard work for you. The Check a Practitioner service exists for situations like these. You can check if a practitioner is regulated by law or belongs to a reputable Accredited Register.
Content
Surgical treatment like facelifts and hair transplants should only be carried out by regulated professionals e.g. surgeons. But the landscape isn’t as clear for non-surgical treatments. The facts are as follows:
- Practitioners offering treatments such as lip fillers, anti-wrinkle injections (like Botox) and lasers do not need to be regulated by law (although legislation may change in the future)
- In theory, anyone can offer these treatments
- Anti-wrinkle injections require a prescription, but lip fillers don’t
- This means that if you’re having Botox (or similar), the prescriber should speak to you to assess your suitability for the procedure.
- There are no plans to make lip fillers prescription-only, but there are plans to reclassify them as ‘medical devices’. This should standardise the quality of filler products on the market and eliminate cheap imports from abroad.
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