BOTOX PARTIES CAN CONTINUE
Beauty therapists can continue to administer Botox at parties after ministers refused to introduce statutory regulations of cosmetic injectable drugs.
Unscrupulous practitioners have been administering Botox injections and wrinkle fillers at parties and in their homes and complaints of botched treatment have increased.
Experts have been calling for statutory regulation for years but ministers have again rejected the move and are backing the voluntary scheme instead.
London Bridge Plastic Surgery surgeon, chris Inglefield, says: “The voluntary scheme will see doctors, dentists and registered nurses who have had extra training in Botox and other injectable cosmetic drugs display a quality mark.
“To qualify for the mark they will have to sign up to professional standards and be inspected.
Those holding the quality mark will not be able to administer Botox at parties or prescribe the substances for patients they have not seen. Beauty therapists and other untrained staff will not be allowed to hold the quality mark.
But it will then be up to customers and patients to check they are using a practitioner with the quality mark.”
