Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the General Medical Council guidance for doctors providing cosmetic surgery which came into force in June 2016.

The Department has not made an assessment of the General Medical Council’s guidance for doctors offering cosmetic interventions that came into effect on 1 June 2016.

The Department welcomes this guidance which is designed to promote safe, patient-centred care and sets out what is expected from doctors offering cosmetic procedures both surgical and non-surgical.