Only qualified healthcare professionals will be able to perform high-street cosmetic procedures, such as Brazilian butt lifts and vampire facials, in a new government crackdown on “cowboy clinics”.

Under the new proposals, announced this week, anyone carrying out the highest-risk cosmetic procedures will need to be a qualified, trained and regulated professional.

Only doctors will be able to inject fillers into parts of the body other than the face, including a liquid BBL also known as a Brazilian butt lift - a procedure that injects fillers directly into the tissue to build volume.

Other high-risk treatments such as deep chemical peels, vampire facials, dermal micro-coring and some laser procedures will only be able to be carried out by a doctor, dentist, or some trained nurses, midwives and pharmacists.

A vampire facial involves micro-needling the patient’s face with their own blood plasma to rejuvenate the skin, and dermal micro-coring uses needles to remove tiny plugs of skin in an attempt to tighten…