Doctors and cosmetic surgery experts have called for the leaders of the regulatory boards overseeing the troubled industry to resign. | EXCLUSIVE adele_ferguson
A confidential briefing organised by the national health regulator days before the release of a report into the $1.4 billion cosmetic surgery industry has deteriorated into a slanging match, with the regulator accusing doctors of failing to report patient harm and a medical practitioner calling for regulators to resign.
This, and a recommendation to introduce grandfathering arrangements to allow cosmetic surgeons who are not currently qualified surgeons to continue to practice, raised the ire of at least one participant, who revealed the details of the meeting.Professor Mark Ashton was one of the more vocal critics at the briefing.
“Expressing concern that patient harm was made known to the media before it was known to them, confirms what we have known all along. We have seen that formal complaints that are made are ignored or are allowed to sit in a drawer for an indefinite period of time, until there is public scrutiny via the media. And perhaps negative media coverage is of greater concern than acting to protect patients and allow victims to be heard,” Sheen said.
He said the proposal to create a new endorsement body would create a new breed of AHPRA-endorsed cosmetic cowboys, and patients would be even more confused than they are now. Tonkin disagreed and said cosmetic surgeons who had been allowed to continue practising as a GP “have clearly been able to express remorse, point out what they are going to do differently, they are working under supervision and do behave as a GP. People can reform,” she said.
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