“Cosmetic cowboys” will be banned from performing high-risk procedures under new Government plans.

The crackdown follows incidents in which patients have been maimed, and deaths linked to poor care and rogue operators.

Under the measures, only qualified healthcare professionals such as doctors and nurses will be able to deliver procedures such as Brazilian butt lifts. These will only be able to be carried out by providers regulated by the health regulator, the Care Quality Commission.

Clinics administering Botox and fillers will have to meet new standards and be licenced by councils.

Under-18s will be banned from high risk procedures, such as injectables, amid concerns that children needed to be protected from “dangerous beauty trends on social media”.

Health officials said the steps aimed to protect the public from “rogue operators” with no medical training, who often provided “invasive” procedures in homes, hotels and pop-up clinics.