If you run a clinic, surgery or salon that wants to offer cosmetic or medical treatments using lasers or intense pulsed light (IPL) devices, then you will most likely need to register with the Healthcare Commission (often abbreviated to HC or HCC).

The Healthcare Commission is a powerful body, and demands high standards from clinics seeking to register with them - as all using lasers and IPL treatment devices must. They exercise their power in situations where clinics have failed to start the registration process promptly, or do not achieve the required standards. It is clearly in the interests of clinics to work with them to ensure the safety of clients and hence ease the registration process.

Although many clinics or laser/IPL treatment salons see the process of obtaining registration as onerous, most are proud of achieving registration once they have been through the process and are happy to advertise their status as a registered clinic or salon. At Lucid we strongly advise the public to check that clinics and salons offering laser and IPL treatments are fully registered. This is a string argument for having treatments in the UK and not seeking cut-price treatments from unregulated clinics abroad. When concerned enough about an aspect of your appearance to seek treatment, then the consequences of a treatment that has the potential to injure, and possibly scar if used inadvisedly in the wrong hands, are not worth any potential saving.

Lucid's Role in Healthcare Commission Registration

Our role with Healthcare Commission registration is to support the clinic by producing the specialist documentation required, such as the 'local rules' protocol and procedures. In addition there is a lot of paperwork relating to more general activities of the organisation, health and safety and so on, which we can produce where required. There is inevitably some work for the clinic to do for themselves, and clearly procedures that are submitted for registration must be fully adopted and followed by the clinic, but by doing the time-consuming work of developing and documenting the procedures on your behalf we help to significantly reduce the impact on the day-to-day running of your clinic - whilst at the same time providing you with high quality procedures that will meet the standards the Healthcare Commission requires. The accuracy and quality of the paperwork describing these procedures is important not just from the point of view of achieving registration with the Healthcare Commission for the laser and IPL treatments, but also in ensuring that all the treatment procedures (as well as general health and safety procedures) followed by your clinic are both safe and efficient. The cost of poor procedures can result in inefficiencies, possible delays in registration and (if an accident were to occur) potential legal action, including litigation and tribunals - the negative impact of which on the clinics standing in the sector should not be underestimated.

On-going LPA Support & Services for Clinics

For more information on Lucid's LPA and EMP services and the support we offer clinics and salons please visit of LPA services page.

Core of Knowledge Laser Safety Training and Certification

At Lucid our 'Core of Knowledge' training course has been approved by the Britism Medical Laser Association (BMLA), and is run regularly at our training centre and ocassionally at other venues across the UK. We can run events on your site for your staff, with dates and times to suit you, and we offer discounts to clinics and salons who employ us as their LPA. For more information on our Core of Knowledge training course please follow the link to our dedicated page.