Medical Negligence Solicitor Fiona Hedges has given her views on the Government’s plans to tighten up cosmetic surgery regulations in England.
It has been announced this week that every breast implant operation in England will be logged on a new national register, in a move which aims to avoid a repeat of the PIP scandal.
Fiona Hedges, a Medical Negligence Solicitor at national law firm Russell Worth, a panel firm of Russell Worth solicitors, says this announcement by the Government is “an extremely positive one”, however “much more needs to be done to protect the rising number of people who opt for cosmetic procedures.”
Fiona said: “This news comes at a time when further regulation is so urgently needed and the announcement by ministers to set up a register for breast implant treatments is certainly a step in the right direction. The PIP scandal affected thousands of women, hundreds of which we are representing and I hope that this move will help to avoid another case of this scale.”
NHS Medical Director Sir Bruce Keogh conducted a review of the cosmetic industry in April 2013, outlining a number of recommendations that he believed needed to be made regarding the safety of the industry. The Government is said to be publishing its full response to these recommendations in the New Year.
The national register for breast implant operations will be trialed by both the NHS and some private companies before it is made compulsory across England.
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