We posted a blog article in October last year where Mr Rajiv Grover, president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), said it was“shameful" that regulations surrounding dermal fillers still hadn't been tightened up, almost six months after a government-backed review claimed fillers were the "next crisis waiting to happen".
So when the Government announced new laws earlier this month we thought maybe they’d been listening. In the Government response to the Review of the Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions February 2014, ministers announced that Health Education England would review training for dermal fillers and Botox injections and that legislation will be introduced to make it illegal to offer such procedures without training.
This means that if someone wants to offer dermal fillers they will have to do so under a named doctor or nurse who could then be held accountable if something were to go wrong. However the proposal has come under criticism for not going far enough, with surgeons remaining concerned that anyone can still offer and administer the fillers.
One main criticism is the failure to classify the fillers as prescription only, as recommended by Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS in England, in his review into cosmetic interventions at the beginning of last year. Sir Keogh warned dermal fillers could cause lasting harm but were only covered by the same level of regulation as a toothbrush.
Rajiv Grover told the BBC: "Frankly, we are no less than appalled at the lack of action taken.
Legislators have clearly been paying only lip service to the sector's dire warnings that dermal fillers are a crisis waiting to happen."
Grover continued, "The ability to classify fillers as prescription only would have allowed three birds to be killed with one stone. It would effectively have controlled the marketing and sale of these fillers, it would have regulated who can perform these injections and it would have provided an automatic ban on advertising."
In a statement, Sir Bruce Keogh said: "This is the beginning of a journey, not the end, but I am confident these changes will create a much safer and skilled cosmetic industry which should reassure both consumers and practitioners."
Given its an industry that’s expected to reach £3.6 billion next year, with non-surgical cosmetic treatments such as dermal fillers, Botox& the use of laser or intense pulsed light (IPL) accounting for nine out of ten procedures and 75% of the market value, I guess we won’t have to wait long to see if he’s right.
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