Inside Aesthetics has become a trusted platform and voice for our industry.  With our reach, we have decided to give our Australian listeners the opportunity to comment on the new AHPRA Guidelines. 

We all want to have an industry that best serves our patients and that has patient safety as its very core. Having spoken to numerous key stake holders and leaders, many do not feel that the proposed guidelines help patients understand cosmetic treatments and nor do they improve patient safety. 

There is a secondary and significant impact on individual cosmetic practitioners and aesthetic businesses due to the severe constraints of the regulations. They feel that the new regulations are not in line with how other medical specialities are governed. Some parties believe the new rules have not been thought through in terms of how the changes are implemented practically and there will be a significant and negative impact on how practitioners work and interact with their patients.