Clampdown On High Street Botox Clinics Chief Medical Officer Pledges Tough New Controls On Cosmetic Procedures

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SCOTLAND'S chief medical officer has pledged to clamp down on the nation's unregulated cosmetics industry in the same week as the country's first one-stop high street cosmetic treatment clinic opened in Glasgow.

Tough new rules designed to control the provision of Botox treatments and to stamp out rogue practitioners are being introduced south of the Border, and CMO Mac Armstrong has told the Sunday Herald that similar safeguards might soon be implemented in Scotland.

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Clampdown On High Street Botox Clinics Chief Medical Officer Pledges Tough New Controls On Cosmetic Procedures

Armstrong said: "Our main concern is to ensure that patients are protected by proper regulation of cosmetic surgical and non- surgical procedures, wherever provided.

"The majority of aesthetic cosmetic procedures in Scotland are provided in the priv...

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