QUEENSLAND'S independent health watchdog has ordered 14 cosmetic surgical and medical practitioners to lift their game in the interest of patient safety.
A Health Quality and Complaints Commissions (HQCC) report released on Monday says there were four or more complaints about each of the 14 practitioners among 245 complaints received between July 1, 2006 and June 30, 2012.
The report titled Great expectations: A Spotlight Report on Complaints about Cosmetic Surgical and Medical Procedures, said all 14 had been required to prepare and implement a quality improvement action plan.
HQCC will monitor how these practitioners perform against their improvement plan.
The report said the community often perceived cosmetic procedures to be low risk when they were often complex, required a high degree of skill and posed a number of potential risks.
It found there was less regulation and fewer patient safeguards in this field than in other areas of medicine.
The report said 82 per cent of the 245 complains were about cosmetic procedures and 16 per cent were about cosmetic medical procedures.
Most complaints were about breast lifts and breast implants followed by facelifts, eye surgery abdominoplasty (tummy tucks) and breast reduction.
Cosmetic injections and laser treatment were the most frequently complained about cosmetic medical procedures, followed by chemical peels.
The number of complaints about cosmetic medical procedures more than doubled between 2006 and 2012.
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