JCCP makes progress towards establishing an industry register
The Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) has moved further towards its goal of establishing an industry register.
The council held a stakeholders meeting in London last month to outline its progress.
The JCCP has completed a major consultation exercise and the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority (CPSA) has begun its work in developing a set of clinical and practice standards against which to benchmark and assess clinical competence and practice proficiency. It will seek to build on the framework established by Health Education England (HEE), now owned by the JCCP, and is targeted to deliver the new standards by November 2017.
Once the standards framework has been completed by the CPSA it will be used by the JCCP as the basis for the establishment of its Practitioner Register.
Both the Education/Training Provider Register and the Practitioner Register are also being designed and a procurement process is in place to identify a contractor who will develop and maintain the IT platform. The Practitioner Register will be split into two parts. One for practitioners who are registered already with Professionally Regulated Statutory Bodies (PRSB’s) such as the GMC, GDC and NMC and one for those who are not.
In the next few months the JCCP will also be established as a fully independent “not for profit” company with charitable status.
Professor David Sines, the interim chair for the JCCP commented, “There has been a huge amount of interest in the work of the JCCP and I value the debate that it has generated.
“I have been impressed with the commitment and professionalism of so many different stakeholders in the aesthetic sector. They come with differing views, conflicting interests but have recognised that in the absence of mandatory regulation it is better to ‘do something’ rather than let the public at large continue to be at threat through the delivery of services by unqualified and inexperienced practitioners aided and abetted by some very dubious training practices and providers.
“The JCCP is not the panacea to solve these problems and issues but I believe provides a starting point by which we can start to address the key issues of standards, practice and education/training in such a rapidly developing field.”
