The JCCP's general principles for the provision of safe and effective CPD for aesthetic practitioners

Any practitioner who undertakes aesthetic procedures should be mandated to provide evidence that they possess the requisite skills, knowledge, competence, confidence and capability to practise both safely and effectively for each and all of the procedures that they provide. This will require all aesthetic practitioners to engage in ongoing CPD activities on an annual basis that are appropriate and proportionate to the risks involved in their practice. The JCCP purports that for CPD to be meaningful it should be associated with reflective practice undertaken by practitioners and supported by evidence of how their learning experience has resulted in an improvement to both patient safety and to their practice overall. We recognise that this will require a significant culture change across the aesthetics sector but we remain committed to emphasising the importance of a new standardised approach to CPD being formulated and adopted in the interests of public protection.

The JCCP considers that engagement in appropriately regulated CPD activities should mandated for all aesthetic procedures (particularly those more invasive procedures involving the use, or injection of botulinum toxins, temporary or permanent dermal fillers and hair restoration surgery etc.) The JCCP affirms that the provision of any new legally determined scheme of licensing for aesthetic practice should mandate that only those practitioners who are able to provide robust evidence that they meet (yet to be determined) national standards for CPD should be eligible to receive a practitioner license at both the point of application and at the point of renewal. This is required to provide evidence that the practitioner practises legally, safely and effectively.