Treatments You
Can Trust

In a major step forward in patient protection, which has been fully supported by MYA Cosmetic Surgery, the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) have set up Treatments You Can Trust, a website that for the first time allows consumers to have the ability to 'shop responsibly' for injectable cosmetic treatments such as Botox® and dermal fillers through a Government backed online register of medically certified practitioners and sites.

Treatments You Can Trust has been established to help consumers make an educated decision on how to choose a safe provider and avoid the growing number of rogue practitioners, through a comprehensive directory of those regulated doctors, dentists and registered nurses who meet all the standards and training principles required to administer cosmetic injectable treatments safely.

To join the scheme, organisations and solo practitioners must meet IHAS standards, which include that only doctors, dentists and registered nurses can be involved in the delivery of these injectable cosmetic treatments to patients. All practitioners are accountable to their statutory regulators and must adhere to the standards set. IHAS will report poor practice to the relevant regulators where appropriate.

Applications for registration on the scheme are reviewed by a team of experts, who will also run inspections by conducting site visits randomly selected, with only 24 hours' prior notice to providers.

For more information about Treatments You Can Trust please visit www.TreatmentsYouCanTrust.co.uk

The Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS) is a trade body for the independent healthcare sector. Impartial among its members, IHAS provides the facility for otherwise competitive Members to share innovation, knowledge and expertise for the common good. For more information about IHAS please visit www.independenthealthcare.org.uk