New European Aesthetics Standards To Be Split Between "Surgical" and "Non-surgical".
/For the past three years a new pan European services standard for the aesthetics sector has been in development.
This work has been coordinated at the European level by CEN, the European Committee for Standardization. Member states, including the UK, have been making considerable input into this work, and it had been hoped to publish the standard (as EN 16372) by Q2 / Q3 2014.
The current working title for the EN 16372 standard, reflecting its wide scope, is: 'Aesthetic surgery and aesthetic non-surgical medical services'. However CEN have announced that, for procedural reasons, the decision has now been made to split EN 16372 into two separate standards. One will deal solely with 'aesthetic surgery services', and the other with 'aesthetic non-surgical medical services'. It is anticipated that the content of the two separate standards will be similar to the recent public consultation draft - but simply split into two documents. The target publication dates for the two standards are by Q2 and Q4 2014 respectively.Mike Regan
Chair, BSI Committee CH/403
Aesthetic Surgery Services
