Chesterfield aesthetics clinic describes the market as the 'wild west'
Staff are the Goldsmith Clinic are urging us to 'seek professional advice' before getting any cosmetic procedures done
There's a call for people in South Yorkshire & North Derbyshire not to have any cosmetic treatments - if it 'looks to good too be true'.
The Health Secretary's bringing in a raft of new measures to try & crack down on 'unsafe' surgery practices.
Theresa Goldsmith runs an aesthetics clinic in Chesterfield - she's been telling us about some of the risks in the market:
"There's this unregulated toxin which's causing some really severe side effects.
"These side effects can be catastrophic and lead to people getting hospitalised.
"We hear it all the time with the lip fillers, we hear it about the Brazilian butt lifts too - where people are going around the back streets and getting this dangerous procedure carried out.
"These little pop-up shops that administer lip filler injections make me cringe.
"It's awful to see these unqualified people carrying out filler injections - there are things that can go wrong.
"Have a consultation with somebody and get a qualified healthcare professional to carry out your treatment.
"The market these days is quite unregulated; it's so important that people do check that the person who's injecting them is a qualified healthcare professional - to ensure their own safety."
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said that steps will be taken to protect people from "rogue operators" with no medical training who often provide "invasive" procedures in homes, hotels and pop-up clinics.
The move will also reduce the cost imposed upon the NHS to fix botched procedures, DHSC added.
Proposals include:
- Only health workers who are "suitably qualified" will be able to deliver high-risk procedures such as Brazilian Butt Lifts (BBLs).
- And these workers must be working in providers regulated by the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission.
- Those who break the rules on high-risk procedures could face sanctions from the watchdog and financial penalties.
- Clinics offering Botox and fillers will need to be licensed and meet certain standards to obtain a licence by their local authority.
- Age restrictions will be introduced to prevent children from trying to follow "dangerous beauty trends on social media", officials said. This would see restrictions for under 18s on high-risk cosmetic procedures, unless authorised by a health professional.
The Department said that it will launch a consultation next year seeking views on the range of procedures which should be covered in the new restrictions.