Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government was 'not considering' a Royal Commission into the cosmetic surgery sector amid growing pressure from several peak medical bodies.
Australia’s $1.4 billion cosmetic surgery industry was found to allow doctors with basic medical degrees and weekend courses to call themselves cosmetic surgeons in an investigation by Nine Entertainment’s newspapers and 60 Minutes.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is resisting calls for a Royal Commission into the cosmetic surgery sector. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Dylan Coker “But I, like other Australians, have had a look at some of those reports and are very sympathetic with the victims of what clearly is completely unacceptable in terms of the difference of what people expected and what the outcomes were.”
“I’ve been appalled by the devastating actions of these cowboy cosmetic surgeons,” he said in a statement. In a joint statement the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons, the Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and the Australian Society of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgeons called for “prompt action” from the national health regulator.
The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency will be releasing its findings from a sweeping independent review into patient safety and issues within the cosmetic surgery sector and how to strengthen risk based regulation of practitioners.
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