Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether he plans to require the Care Quality Commission to rate providers of cosmetic surgery.
The Government published a consultation on 22 August 2016 on the scope of performance assessment of providers regulated by the Care Quality Commission. This included proposals to apply performance ratings to additional provider sectors, including cosmetic surgery providers. The document is available at:
It is our intention to extend performance ratings to this sector by October 2017.