JCCP clarifies membership categories for practitioner registers
The Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) has released a statement clarifying the different categories of membership available for its practitioner register, which will be split into two parts.
The first part is for clinical practitioners who are registered with professional regulated statutory bodies (PRSBs), such as the General Medical Council (GMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), General Dental Council (GDC), General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI) and the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC), some of who will also be prescribers, and who can provide oversight and work independently.
The second part is made up of practitioners who are not in current membership with, or are not eligible to join, a PSRB, and who require clinical oversight for specific procedural interventions, such as beauty therapists and aesthetic practitioners who are able to be registered with a PRSB but have elected not to do so.
Professor David Sines, JCCP chair, said, “There has been much speculation about the role of beauty therapists being able to enter the JCCP register and particularly them being considered competent to be able to undertake the higher Level 6 and Level 7 treatments such as injectables and fillers.
“The JCCP acknowledges these concerns and has declared that only those persons who can objectively evidence that they meet all of the JCCP and CPSA education, knowledge and practice-based competencies will be eligible to apply for registration in respect of any designated modality/scope of practice.”
