Cosmetic surgery standards welcomed by IHAS

The Independent Healthcare Advisory Service (IHAS) welcomes the recent publication from the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) Professional Standards for Cosmetic Surgery. The standards clearly state that only registered doctors, dentists and nurses should be carrying out cosmetic injectable procedures and only appropriately qualified doctors carry out invasive cosmetic surgery. This position directly supports Treatments You Can Trust, the IHAS website to guide those thinking of having injectable cosmetic treatments. IHAS does not believe standards go far enough in defining the qualifications required to undertake cosmetic surgery and also believe that there are occasions and certain types of procedures when others apart from those three professions could use class 3B and Class 4 lasers in cosmetic practice. Therefore the standards come with a number of cautions and concerns about the content in relation to other areas of cosmetic interventions.