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You see it does not really matter what the HEE has said, or how the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) plans to carry this forward in practice to form a register, or the insistence that beauty therapists will all need to achieve a Level 7 (Masters degree equivalent) qualification in cosmetic injectables, as well as have clinical oversight from a prescriber, in order to practice; because we all know that there is no statutory or mandatory regulation to enforce this as the government prefers an industry lead voluntary approach, so there will simply be no policing of these individuals.
Doctors, nurses and dentists are all accountable to their own regulatory bodies, namely the GMC, NMC and GDC, yet those operating as beauty therapists have no regulator to oversee their fitness to practice.
Social media posts and private forum groups are littered with conversations amongst aesthetic medical practitioners with story after story of the corrections that they have performed, and the tales their patients provide about local beauty therapists and their injectable experiences.
More worrying are live stories from nurses and doctors who have been contacted within the hour by therapists desperate for help for their clients. They come looking for an immediate 'fixer', often asking for a source of hyaluronidase (used to remove hyaluronic acid-based dermal fillers); in many cases seeking this from their usual prescriber will take too long for the product to arrive via prescription. You have to feel and pray for the client and their safety in these situations.
Aesthetic nurses raised a 100% in favour vote at the recent Journal of Aesthetic Nursing (JAN) Annual Conference to support the motion that they have no confidence in non-healthcare professionals providing cosmetic injectables. This positive stance was picked up by some media outlets and praised by the industry.