Medics form new association to oppose JCCP registers

A new medical aesthetic organisation has formed to oppose the Joint Council of Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP)’s decision to allow non-medics such as beauty therapists to join its registers.

The British Association of Aesthetic Nurses, Doctors and Dentists (BAANDD) said the JCCP could serve to lower medical standards in Britain.

BAANDD is described as “a multidisciplinary association whose aim is to deliver high-quality, evidence-based treatments to patients as well as providing ongoing education and support services for its membership”.

Dr Patrick Treacy, president of the Royal Society of Medicine Aesthetic Faculty, is one of the founding members.

Treacy is urging medical colleagues to contemplate their decision before joining the JCCP’s voluntary register, which also includes non-medics such as beauty therapists, believing that many medical aesthetic professionals do not want to be on a register with non-medics who “potentially may decide future protocols within the industry”.

The JCCP’s position is that experienced beauty therapists on its register could inject botox or dermal fillers only under the supervision of a registered clinician, offering an improvement to the current, unregulated market.

inbrief

// The International Institute of Anti-Ageing (IIAA) will host an Innovation Tour this month with Dr Des Fernandes. The founder of Environ skincare will talk about advances in skincare ingredients and technologies in London (June 18), Dublin (June 21), Bristol (June 25), Manchester (June 26) and Edinburgh (June 28).

// Italian skincare brand Comfort Zone has partnered with London member’s club Cloud Twelve Club, which was due to open in Notting Hill in June as PB went to press. It will house a spa, salon, wellness clinic, brasserie and a “play and learn space”.

Comfort Zone will provide signature rituals and facials and homecare to purchase.

// A student has come up with a solution to keep beauty products from becoming landfill. Ameenah Begum from Sussex University turns eyeshadow palettes with unused product into paints for watercolour artists. Her company, Cos Watercolours, uses crushed eyeshadow treated with gum Arabic solution, ox gall solution and distilled water.

// NYX Professional Make-up is opening its second UK store in Birmingham this summer. The 1,700sq ft shop will be in the Bullring Estate shopping centre. Its other UK store is in Westfield Stratford shopping centre in London.

// MoroccanTan is offering savings to therapists taking on the brand. Distributor Sweet Squared is giving new customers who join before the end of June 30% off a summer starter kit containing pro solutions, retail products and a salon support kit.

They can then access a further three months of savings.