AHPRA has accepted 16 recommendations to clean up the rogue operators in the cosmetic surgery industry, but qualified plastic surgeons say they haven't gone far enough.
"The problems the independent review identifies are not new, but they are worse now than ever before,' AHPRA CEO Martin Fletcher said, in accepting the report.
"Exponential growth in the use of social media in recent years has deepened the fault lines in the cosmetic surgery industry — social media has radically increased its power and profitability," he said.Mr Fletcher said AHPRA recognised it needed to do better, as the regulator. "Unfortunately, although the intention may have been good, these recommendations are really inadequate for meeting the needs of the community and really won't achieve what's needed in this area," Associate Professor Nicola Dean said.“The report was underwhelming and profoundly disappointing,” Professor Marc Ashton said.
"The Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons was hoping that this report would fix that and it hasn't." "But cosmetic surgery is surgery … and surgery requires training in anatomy, in peri operative care, in checking for risk factors, for complications, and in really managing the aftercare of patients having serious procedures.
The review acknowledged it received a number of submissions calling for AHPRA to stop allowing anyone with basic medical training to call themselves cosmetic surgeons.
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