JCCP influence that functioned as a DeFacto Regulator without Legal Authority

The DeFacto Culture of Hostility We Were Told Was “Safety”

Dearest Practitioner,

This is not a victory lap.

It is a reckoning, and an invitation.

If you are an aesthetic medical professional who entered the JCCP orbit believing you were protecting patients, raising standards, or doing “the right thing,” only to find yourself in the toxic cycle of opposing non-HCP practitioners, monitoring colleagues, or quietly questioning the hostility it created, this is for you.

And if you are a non-HCP aesthetics practitioner who has been monitored, trolled, reported, isolated, frozen out, or professionally bullied for existing, collaborating or refusing to bow to intimidation, this is especially for you.

Take a breath.

Something important has shifted.

The Charity Commission has issued four formal reports relating to the JCCP.

That alone matters.

More importantly, those reports were followed by:

• Leadership restructuring

• Changes to governance terms

• The retirement of David Sines

This is a regulatory correction.

In Charity Commission language, this means material governance failings were identified, and corrective action was required.

Not suggested.

Required.

This is what happens when a charity:

• Exceeds its lawful remit

• Blurs governance boundaries

• Concentrates influence inappropriately

• Or presents itself as something it is not

Which brings us to an uncomfortable but necessary truth.

The JCCP Was Never a regulator.

It never had legal authority or enforcement powers.

It should never have been framed or treated as:

• A regulatory body

• A regulatory influence

• A Lobbying authority

• Or an arbiter of who “should” or “should not” practise

That framing was overreach, and it has now been corrected.

The Charity Commission does not intervene like this unless lines have been crossed.

This moment marks the end of the illusion of authority, quietly, formally, and permanently.

To the Aesthetic Medicals Who Were Drawn In

Some of you genuinely believed you were defending safety.

Some of you were told non-HCPs were dangerous by default.

Some of you were encouraged to see collaboration as a compromise and support as betrayal.

And some of you now recognise that the hostility, online pile-ons, monitoring, whisper campaigns, and professional freezing were never about patient safety.

They were controlling you.

If you felt uneasy but stayed silent, this is your moment to step forward without shame.

You were not stupid.

You were influenced.

And influence cuts both ways.

The future of this industry does not need saviours.

It needs educators, collaborators, and grown-ups.

To the Non-HCP Practitioners

Read this twice.

You were not paranoid.

You were not imagining it.

You were not “unsafe by default.”

What you experienced was systemic exclusion, amplified by an organisation that was permitted to speak louder than it should have.

• Monitoring.

• Trolling.

• Reporting campaigns.

• Professional isolation.

• Medics were being warned not to support you, prescribe for you, or educate alongside you.

That pressure did not come from the law; it came from influence.

And that influence has now been curtailed.

You are allowed to feel relief.

You are allowed to stop shrinking.

You are allowed to be in the room.

You are safe.

What This Now Means

It means:

• No single body gets to posture as the moral or regulatory authority over this industry

• No profession gets to bully another under the banner of “safety”

• No practitioner gets erased for failing to fit a preferred narrative

It means the industry must return to what actually protects the public:

• Education.

• Competence.

• Accountability.

• Mutual respect.

Without sneering, intimidation or fear.

The Only Way Forward

Education is the bridge, mutual respect is the foundation, and public safety is the shared goal.

HCPs who wish to mentor, prescribe ethically, educate responsibly, and collaborate openly, now is the moment.

Non-HCP practitioners who have built skill, ethics, experience, and client trust under relentless pressure, your voice matters now more than ever.

This is about ending a culture that thrived on division.

It will be built by practitioners who respect each other enough to learn together.

So, Dearest practitioner, wherever you sit in this industry, consider this your invitation:

Choose collaboration over control, and education over ego.

That is how the public is protected, how the industry grows. Together.

— The Injector’s Quill

What is a DeFacto regulator?

A de facto regulator is not a real regulator.

It is an organisation or group that acts as if it has regulatory authority and is treated as if it does, even though the law never gave it that power.

“De facto” simply means in practice, but not in law.

So when we say de facto regulator, we mean:

They weren’t officially in charge, but people behaved as if they were.