The key elements of a national aesthetic treatment licensing regime

The licensing regime should make provision for the safe and ethical sourcing, distribution and administration of products and medicines

The Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) has worked closely with the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and the Care Quality Commission (CQC), as well as a range of other regulators within the UK, with one aim: to promote patient safety and enhance public protection. At the heart of the JCCP's mandate is a call to introduce statutory regulation for the aesthetics sector, while reducing the burden of multiple inspections for registered healthcare practitioners and their clinics. In July 2021, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Beauty, Aesthetics and Wellbeing advised that it was unable to call for a national system of statutory regulation for the sector, but recommended the design and implementation of a national aesthetics licencing scheme for England: