Ministers want to tighten “cowboy” cosmetics procedures, including Botox and Brazilian lifting after a series of horror incidents that left customers dead or destructive damage.
Officials said the industry had been destroyed by “trainees and procedures”, with some patients “canceled” during abused treatments.
Following is the case of the mother of the five, Alice Webb, who died in September 2024.
The Ministry of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has proposed new restrictions on who can access and provide treatments in an effort to protect people from “scammers” without medical training that often provide “invasive” processes to homes, hotels and emerging clinics.
Movement should also reduce the costs imposed on NHS to correct abused procedures, DHSC added.
Tim Mitchell, president of the Royal College of England Surgeons, welcomed the proposals as “an important first step forward for patient safety”.
Health Minister Karin Smyth said: “The cosmetics industry is infected by a wild west by practitioners and procedures.
“There are countless stories of cosmetic cosmetics horror that cause serious, destructive harm.”
He said the government would also take action “root out cowboys” and support “honest and competent professionals”.
“It’s not about to stop anyone from getting treatments – it’s about preventing rogue operators to exploit people at the expense of their safety and keeping people safe,” Ms Smyth added.
“We give them peace and reducing the costs for NHS to determine the abused procedures.”
Government’s proposals include:
- Only allowing healthy workers who are “appropriately appropriate” to be able to provide high -risk processes such as (BBLS)
- Providers are secured by the Health Regulator, the Care Quality Committee.
- Sanctions slap and final penalties to those who violate the rules in high -risk processes
- Ensuring clinics offered by Botox and Payments are licensed
- By introducing age restrictions to prevent children from trying to follow “dangerous beauty trends in social media”
The timetable for the introduction and completion of these measures was not mentioned. But the DHSC said it would launch a consultation next year asking views on the range of procedures that should be covered by new restrictions.
Last month, the Chartered Institute Trading Standards warned that fat injections, BBLs, Botox and fillers are offered by non -trained people in places such as public toilets.
Before the proposed regulations have come into force, the government called on people looking for cosmetic procedures to seek the qualifications and insurance of the provider and to be careful for the “suspicious cheap” bids.
Health officials began investigation after several people who had reactions to Botox injections earlier this year.
Professor David Sines CBE, president and secretary of the Cosmetic Council for Cosmetic Professionals (JCCP), said the move would “protect the public from unsafe and inexperienced pilots and save the NHS significant time and money, putting the damage done properly”.
The statement added that the need for new measures has become increasingly clear in recent years with the “explosion of high -rise stores that offer high -risk processes provided by people with limited clinical knowledge and training”.
He warned that this has led to long -term health complications and, in some cases, has led to the death of patients.
Mr Mitchell suggested that the government should further proceed with Brazilian wet lifts, which the RCS has said that the procedure should only be performed by a surgeon certified by the Cosmetics Board of Directors.
The surgeon has warned that the procedure needs medical supervision to prevent serious complications and said that while government plans would improve the regulation of non -surgical interventions, it should also urgently improve surgery.
Millie Kendall, CEO of the British Beauty Council, said: “Any measures that increase protection for the general public and industry professionalism will help confidence and help prevent the normalization of horror stories that have become synonymous with our field.”
