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All voting members of the JCCP Trust Board are appointed in accordance with Charity Commission rules and procedures in strict accordance with Nolan Principles. All voting members of the Trustee Board are also registered with Companies House. All appointments are approved by the full Trustee Board in open session.

Voting members

Professor David Sines CBE – Chairperson and Registrar

Dr. Martyn King – Medicine – Vice Chair

Dr. Tracey Bell – Dentistry

Eddie Hooker – Corporate Governance

Dawn Knight – Patient Advocate/Service User

Kimberley Cairns – Patient/User Advocate

Caroline Larissey – Beauty Therapy Sector (until June 2024)

Victoria Brownlie MBE - Beauty Therapy Sector (from July 2024)

Professor John Underwood – Chair Communications and Marketing Committee

Professor Mary Lovegrove OBE – Chair of the Education and Training Committee

Andrew Rankin – Nursing and Chair of the Practitioner Register Committee and Co-Chair Clinical Advisory Group

Sally Taber – Corporate Governance

Mr. Alex Woollard – Plastic Surgeon and CPSA Representative/Mr. Mark Mikhail Plastic Surgeon and CPSA Representative (until October 2024)

Dr. Clare Kiely – Consultant Dermatologist and CPSA Representative CPSA Representative (from November 2024)

Dr Paul Charlson – Medicine – Co-Chair Clinical Advisory Group

Sharron Brown – Nursing – (BACN nominated Trustee)

Dr John Elder – Medicine (BCAM nominated Trustee)

April 2024 – March 2025

^Trustees

Trustee Appointment Process

Non-voting members are selected and appointed in accordance with ‘skill mix/expertise’ requirements determined by the full Trustee Board in order to enable the Board to achieve its core purpose, functions and objectives. The JCCP operates as an inclusive and non-discriminatory organisation.

Non-voting members

Victor Ktorakis – Environmental Health Sector Representative

Lukasz Adamek and Wojciech Konczalik - Manufacturing Industry Representative (Galderma)

Cheryl Pitcher/Dr. Maria Christidou - Manufacturing Industry Representative (Allergan)

Joan Scott – Skills Active/Habia

Gillian Kennedy - Manufacturing Industry Representative (Merz)

Mark Hope – Chartered Institute of Environmental Health

Antonis Kousoulis – Mental Health Advisor (until June 2024)

Dr. Elaine Sassoon – BAAPS representative

Values and public protection

^{Mission statement}

‘The Joint Council for Cosmetic Practitioners (JCCP) is recognised as a self-regulator of the non-surgical aesthetic and hair restoration surgical sector in England and a point of access for the public seeking information about this area of practice and where appropriate for raising concerns about practitioners and educational providers. The JCCP places public protection and patient safety at the core of its activities.

JCCP Practitioner Registrants and associated Education and Training Providers and Qualifications are approved by the JCCP as meeting the highest standards of quality by ensuring that all parties who have been admitted to the JCCP’s Register(s) have met agreed benchmarks and abide by the standards of practice and behaviour as determined by the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority (CPSA) and the JCCP.

Values of the JCCP

Upholding Patient Safety and Public Confidence as the core driving force of the JCCP.
Operating its Register of Practitioners (as required by the Government’s Professional Standards Authority) and its Register Approved Education and Training Providers within a strict and agreed Code of Practice and Competency Framework that embodies robust ethical standards to providing aesthetic treatments and education and training.
Openness, fairness, and independence.
Commitment to Equality of Opportunity, Inclusion and Diversity
Working in partnership with service users and all key stakeholders in the aesthetic industry.
Recognising innovation and best evidenced-based practice and responding constructively to service change and development.

Protecting the Public

Applying strict standards for entry to the JCCP Register and for continued registration (as required by the Government’s Professional Standards Authority).

Approving qualifications and education and training providers that deliver qualifications that meet the standards.
Maintaining a register of individuals who successfully complete those programmes and approval procedures.
Taking action if the standards may not have been met through the application of the JCCP’s published Fitness to Practice Standards.
Establishing clear and simple procedures to enable the public to raise issues of concern about the professional practice of registrants or other key issues of concern related to aesthetic education, training and standards of aesthetic practice.
Providing simple and easily accessible information to members of the public considering non-surgical aesthetic treatments.
Informing professional regulators and government agencies in relation to areas of risk in the sector and of the opportunities to mitigate such risks.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 1

To continue to sustain a self-regulatory body to oversee the non-surgical aesthetic sector and the hair restoration surgical sector in England with a clear and supported framework of governance.

Key Enablers

Dissemination and application of education, clinical and practice-based standards for non-surgical aesthetic and hair restoration surgical treatments.
Implementation of an agreed set of premises standards for practitioners and education/training providers.
Oversight and governance of a constitutional structure that befits a self-regulatory body with charitable status.
Scrutiny, compliance, and assurance in alignment of the JCCP published governance framework.
Dissemination and application of an agreed ‘Code of Practice’ (2023) for Registrants (in partnership with the CPSA).
Publication and implementation of clear and transparent procedures and processes for dealing with ‘complaints’ or ‘fitness to practice’ issues.
Ongoing agreement and alignment of frameworks and best practice for working with ‘Professional Statutory Regulatory Councils’ regulating practitioners in the fields of non-surgical aesthetics and hair restoration surgery.
Implementation of the agreed Executive and administrative structure for the JCCP.
Ensuring and monitoring continuous risk management.
Continue to implement and update CPSA standards framework and where necessary reflect any updates and additions of ‘emergent therapies’ in JCCP processes, procedures and competency frameworks.
Review the JCCP Competency Framework in line with any changes in standards agreed by the JCCP/CPSA in association with emergent standards set down by the DHSC as part of proposed national licensing requirements in England.
Carry out Annual Governance reviews in line with requirements from the PSA, Companies House, and the Charity Commission.
Maintain and update the JCCP Register of Trustees and appointments to other JCCP committees.
Maintain a central register of JCCP appointees ‘Declarations of Interest’.
Introduce robust arrangements for succession planning for the Council and its Committees.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 2

To deliver the JCCP as an organization and brand that is recognised by the public and by practitioners as the benchmark for patient safety in non-surgical aesthetic and hair restoration surgery treatments and services.

Key Enablers

Establishing and disseminating the JCCP brand that is clearly recognisable.
Setting out the key purpose of the JCCP as a guardian of patient safety and public protection and establishing it as a company limited by guarantee with charitable status.
Publishing and reinforcing the key practitioner entry requirements to the JCCP Practitioner Register to ensure public confidence.
Implementing a ‘Marketing and Communications Strategy’ and accessible ‘public-facing’ website to raise public awareness of the JCCP.
Appoint a cadre of expert Key Opinion Leaders and Ambassadors to support and advocate on behalf of the JCCP and its mission.
Providing an accessible JCCP Practitioner Register and associated tools to enable the public to identify practitioners who meet the required standard.
Publication and active promotion of the benefits of meeting practitioner entry requirements and registration on the JCCP register.
Continue to work with UK Government Departments, the PSA, the CQC, the MHRA, CIEH, PSRBs, the ASA with Professional Membership Associations to promote the co-design, development, and implementation of a robust and responsive system of statutory governance and quality control in the Aesthetics Sector. The JCCP and the CPSA will seek (together) to maintain active and full engagement with the Government to inform the outcome of their public consultation process that will be used to create a new system of licencing for the non-surgical cosmetic sector in England by 2027. To work also with the Scottish Government to inform a new system of regulation for non-surgical cosmetic interventions in Scotland. JCCP structures and resources will be reviewed and enhanced to facilitate and enable the Council’s active contribution to assist in the design of a new model for licensing for both practitioners and premises.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 3

To monitor the effective establishment and implementation of the JCCP Practitioner Register (s) as required by the PSA as an approved public register(s) for practitioners in the non-surgical aesthetic and hair restoration surgery sectors.

Key Enablers

Implementing, managing, and monitoring the outcomes of a systematic audit of the Practitioner Register (s) to meet PSA standards.
Achievement of annual PSA accreditation (including EDI compliance.
Providing robust JCCP technology platforms for its registers.
Undertaking regular market testing with key stakeholders regarding the JCCP’s operating platforms and procedures.
Updating the JCCP Practitioner Register to reflect continuous quality improvement/performance requirements.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 4

4a- To approve non-surgical aesthetic and hair restoration surgery qualifications and education and training provider organisations against an agreed, framework of education, clinical and practice standards for non-surgical aesthetics and hair restoration surgery treatments and procedures and to maintain a published register of the same.

4b - To review and revise the JCCP Education and Training Competency Framework in a timely and responsive manner in accordance with any changes mandated by the DHSC as part of the Government’s proposed implementation of a licensing scheme for non-surgical cosmetic procedures in England.

Key Enablers

Disseminate, publish and apply entry requirements and structures for education and training provider organisations to join the Council’s Register of Approved Education and Training providers.
Implement and monitor the JCCP’s framework of educational, clinical and practice-based standards against which to register practitioners.
Implement processes for evaluating and approving qualifications and education and training provider organisations that meet the JCCP standards.
Implement and monitor the JCCP’s framework of educational, clinical and practice-based standards against which to accredit practitioners.
Implement processes for accrediting education and training provider organisations that meet the JCCP standards via approved centres.
Establish working arrangements with key education and training provider organisations and vocational Awarding Organisations approved to deliver JCCP approved qualifications.
Continue to monitor the implementation and ‘roll out’ of the JCCP’s approved ‘Fast-Track Accreditation and Assessment Centres’ and continued alignment of Specialist Register (and professional College) competencies/standards against the JCCP Competency Framework.
Alignment of Professional Specialist Registry and BCAM Competencies with the JCCP Competency Framework.
Maintain effective working relationships with other key regulatory, accreditation and awarding bodies working in non-surgical aesthetics, including the Government’s regulators for qualifications – Higher Education Institutions, Ofqual, and the SQA etc.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 5

To implement and sustain a viable and sustainable financial model for the JCCP.

Key Enablers

Continue to identify key sources of income – Registrants, Education and Training providers, Corporate Supporters, Charitable Trusts, public sector organisations.
Publishing and implementing a charitable funds/fundraising strategy
Setting fees for practitioners and education and training provider organisations.
Setting and monitoring a financially viable budget for the JCCP.
Projecting and managing cashflow.
Continue to implement the ‘Insurers Registration Project’ programme.
Continue to promote, embed and extend the JCCP Corporate membership programme.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 6

To ensure the robust implementation of the necessary technical infrastructure to operate an effective and resilient membership-based charity and regulatory body and register (s).

Key Enablers

Specifying and procuring the technology requirements for the JCCP Register (s).
Monitoring the effectiveness of the JCCP technology platforms.
Continuously updating and refining the functionality and effectiveness for registration and supporting processes.
Updating and refining the functionality and effectiveness of the JCCP website and social media functions to ensure ‘reach’ and utilisation.
Achieving successful partnership agreement renewal with HFR (the JCCP’s website and register host organisation) – Contract now renewed for a further three years until April 2028.
Continue to work in partnership with the CPSA and NEC Software Solutions (previously Northgate) to ensure patient data is collected and analysed to inform the future evidence base for the sector.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 7

To ensure that the JCCP is a well informed and relevant body in the world of non-surgical aesthetics and hair restoration surgical practitioners.

Key Enablers

Continuing to raise awareness of the role of the JCCP and the CPSA amongst key stakeholders.
Disseminating information to members of the public via its public facing web site – JCCP&me.
Publishing regular and updated narrative statements that supports and reinforces the Council’s strategic objectives over the next 3 years.
Hosting regular stakeholder engagement Council meetings and webinars to inform and to seek constructive engagement with the aesthetics sector.
Engaging in regular discussion with key sector influencers and political opinion leaders and policy makers with the aim of improving patient care, public protection, and regulation.
Facilitate ongoing dialogue with UK regulators to co-design and implement effective licensing and regulation systems that ensure patient safety and public protection.
Providing and disseminating up to date information on all aspects of non-surgical aesthetics and hair restoration surgery for both stakeholders, registrants, and the public.
Attending national conferences and trade shows/exhibitions to promote matters relating to patient safety and public protection in association with the work of the JCCP.
Continue publishing papers and columns in the press, and participate in webinars, radio, and TV broadcasts to promote the JCCP’s focus on patient safety and public protection.
Reviewing and analysing the latest policy and research relating to the aesthetics sector.
Providing feedback to the DHSC, PSA and CPSA on issues and actions that may lead to an updating of the JCCP/CPSA standards framework.
Maintaining and updating the JCCP Competency Framework for aesthetic standards as required in accordance with national policy guidance.
Implement actions to keep registrants informed about the JCCP, CPSA, and key patient safety issues, including through regular newsletters.
Work with regulators to implement robust standards and regulation for safe, ethical, and professional prescribing.
Complete the actions from the JCCP 2021 Ten Point Plan and political campaigns to support the Government’s licensing scheme in England, while working with devolved administrations in Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland to inform national policy and standards.
Engaging in political campaign awareness raising in the interests of patient safety.

JCCP Strategic Objectives

Strategic objective 8

To deliver and maintain the JCCP complaints system for both internal issues and regarding practitioners and other bodies.

Key Enablers

Continue to implement and review the JCCP’s published complaints policy.
Undertake a review of the ‘filters’ to be applied to all complaints received by the JCCP in order to priortise consideration of the same.
Respond to complaints about JCCP registrants and approved education and training providers using the agreed (published) JCCP processes.
Continue to encourage members of the public (and others) to raise issues of concern and complaints to the JCCP through the medium of the JCCP on-line complaints portal.
Provide feedback on complaints about JCCP registrants to the PSA and where necessary appropriate regulatory bodies.
Record and respond to all complaints received and determine if any of these need reporting to other regulators and/or the ASA.
To collate and analyse complaints data that may have implications for public safety as an evidence basis for change and service improvement.