Crackdown on cosmetic surgery ‘cowboys’ after botched Brazilian butt lifts
The ministers want to cut the “cowboy” cosmetic procedures, including a series of horror incidents that leave customers with dead or disaster damage.
Authorities said the industry was announced by “dangerous practitioners and procedures ve and some patients were“ injured ”during booted treatments.
Follows the situation His mother Alice Webb, who died in September 2024. He is thought to be the first person to die After an irregular Brazil butt elevator (BBL) procedure in a UK clinic.
. Health and Social Care Department (DHSC) offered new restrictions on who can access and access treatments and access to treatments to protect people from “bandit operators üzere without medical training in homes, hotels and pop-up clinics.
Move also, Nhs DHSC added to correct the booty procedures.
Tim Mitchell, President of the Royal Surgeons College of the UK, greeted suggestions as “an important step for patient safety”.
Health Minister Karin Smyth said: “The cosmetic industry was disturbed in a wild west of dangerous practitioners and procedures.
“Cosmetic cowboys have numerous horror stories that cause serious, disaster damage.”
He said state He would move “cowboys rooted ve and support“ honest and competent practitioners ..
“This is not about preventing anyone from receiving treatments – this is about bandit operators to exploit people at the expense of safety and keep people safe,” he added.
“We give them peace of mind and reduce the cost to NHS.”
The government’s suggestions include:
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To allow healthy employees (BBLs) with “appropriate qualified” to offer high -risk procedures such as BBLs
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To ensure that the provider is regulated by the health regulator and maintenance quality commission.
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Sanctions and financial penalties for those who violate rules related to high -risk procedures
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Ensuring the licensing of clinics offering botox and fillers
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To introduce age restrictions to prevent children from trying to follow the “dangerous beauty trends on social media”
The timeline is not specified for the promotion and completion of these measures. However, DHSC said it would start a consultation looking for an opinion about the procedures that should be discussed in new restrictions next year.
Last month, the Chartered Commercial Standards Institute warned that oil injections, BBLs, botox and fillings were presented by unmistimated people in places such as public toilets.
Before the proposed arrangements entered into force, the government called on the people looking for cosmetic procedures and to ask for the qualifications and insurance of the provider and to be careful against “suspicious cheap” proposals.
Health officials launched an investigation after a few people reacted to Botox injections earlier this year.
Professor David Sines CBE, President of the Cosmetic Practices Joint Council (JCCP) and his editor President, said that the movement will “protect the people from unmist with and inexperienced operators and save NHS accurately with booty procedures”.
In the statement, the need for new measures has become increasingly clearer with the explosion of high -risk procedures given by people with limited clinical knowledge and education in recent years.
He warned that this led to long -term health complications and in some cases the patient caused deaths.
Mr. Mitchell suggested that the government should go more to the liquid Brazilian butt elevators, which the RCS said that the procedure should only be done by a Cosmetic Surgery Board certified surgeon.
The surgeon warned that the procedure requires medical surveillance to prevent serious complications and said that the government’s plans would improve the regulation of non -surgical interventions, but he should urgently improve the regulation of surgical procedures.
British Beauty Council General Manager Millie Kendall said: “Any precaution for the professionalization of the sector, which increases the protection for the general people, will help prevent the normalization of horror stories that have become synonymous with our sector.”