Hair restoration surgery must be led by a registered doctor and, in England, delivered by a CQC-registered provider. It is a surgical procedure, listed in the proposed licensing scheme’s highest-risk tier. Nurses and technicians work in defined team roles. Courses implying non-medics can run transplant services independently are mis-selling.
The team model is the real picture. A doctor leads assessment, anaesthesia and surgical decisions; technicians deliver the graft-preparation and implantation-support hours; nurses bridge clinical care. Our two hair programmes map to that reality. The Foundations course is for clinicians building toward mentored surgical practice, and the Technician course is for the team roles, with the CQC and scope module shared across both, in writing, before anyone pays.