Regulator announces cosmetic surgery crackdown but won’t hit pause on $1.4b industry

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Regulator announces cosmetic surgery crackdown but won’t hit pause on $1.4b industry | Dana_Adele

and led by former Queensland Health ombudsman Andrew Brown, found minimum standards for education, training and qualifications were “non-existent” in cosmetic surgery.

“Issues like hygiene, infection control, credentialing, what facilities are acceptable for what procedures to occur are all things that we don’t control. They are what’s involved in the licensing of premises [by state governments].” “It is complex [and] it does require ministerial council approval [after] consulting with a lot of stakeholders,” she said.

AHPRA promised a searchable register of cosmetic surgeons accredited under the new pathway and vowed to enforce a ban on testimonials “that mislead and deceive consumers and trivialise risk”, using new technologies to audit social media posts.

 

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