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Get'em out: all women should be offered removal of "clearly substandard" implants

Report Confirms Surgeons' Views: Option of Removal Should be Offered Regardless of Rupture

London – 18 June, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk ) today welcomes the final report of the Expert Group on PIP implants which confirms that the devices are "clearly substandard"... Read more

Get 'em off: ban cosmetic surgery ads in public places

Body Image Report Highlights Vulnerability of Young People

London – 30 May 2012 – According to today’s report published by the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Body Image, half the UK public suffer from negative body image. The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons... Read more

Surgeons Welcome PIP Report, Renew Call for Implant Register

“An opportunity for the Department of Health to get it right and avoid a repeat fiasco”

London – 14 May, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.rorg.uk) today welcomes the Government’s review into the PIP scandal and agrees with its recommendations that more stringent criteria should... Read more

Surgeons welcome withdrawal of controversial 'boob jab'

BAAPS had urged caution on ‘Lunchtime Boob Job’ injectable

London – 20 April, 2012 – In the wake of the PIP breast implant scandal, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk ) welcomes the decision by manufacturers to withdraw a controversial treatment that had been... Read more

Credit card company reimburses for faulty breast implants

Paid with plastic for your plastic surgery? Ray of hope for PIP victims

London – 13 March, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk ) today welcomes the news that a patient has had the full cost of her original breast augmentation with the now-banned, defective PIP... Read more

Clinics 'do not have the skills' to treat implant victims

Clinics replacing PIPs refuse to treat rupture problems – sending patients to the NHS

London – 16 February, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk) today expressed their concern that clinics replacing faulty PIP implants claim ‘not to have the skills’ to treat problems... Read more

Cross-selling to breast implant scandal victims 'immoral'

Don’t give in to unnecessary procedures or bullying tactics, warn surgeons

London – 10 February, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) today denounce clinics putting pressure on PIP implant victims to buy further surgery when seeking to have the controversial devices removed or... Read more

Britons Tighten Belts (in more ways than one)

Male tummy tucks up 15% - Not one procedure decreases in demand in 2011

London, UK – 30 January 2012 – The economy may be shrinking but so are waistlines around the UK, in particular male ones. In spite of a climate of financial austerity and a burgeoning breast implant scandal over the last year,... Read more

Surgeons' statement re: Polyurethane-coated implants

‘No New Developments – Group Exercising Caution’

London – 29 January 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk) urges caution in the face of alarming headlines regarding possible cancer links with a certain type of implant. Polyurethane-coated... Read more

Helping define the shape of things to come

Code of Cosmetic Practice welcomed by surgeons – patient protection ‘Hippocratic’

London – 29 January, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk ), the only organisation based at the Royal College of Surgeons solely dedicated to the advancement of education and practice of... Read more

Surgeons put forward regulation proposal

Straightforward plan calls for advertising ban to ensure controls in the sector

London – 23 January, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk) is delighted with the news of an enquiry by MPs to examine lax regulations which have allowed a ‘cowboy’ market to flourish... Read more

Surgeons put forward regulation proposal

Straightforward plan calls for advertising ban to ensure controls in the sector

London – 23 January, 2012 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk) is delighted with the news of an enquiry by MPs to examine lax regulations which have allowed a ‘cowboy’ market to flourish... Read more

Joint statement regarding PIP implants

Clear new guidance on PIP breast implants issued for patients and doctors

MEDIA STATEMENT: Tuesday, 17 January 2012 Authoritative new professional and patient guidance for all women who have received a PIP breast implant has been released today (Tuesday, 17 Jan 2012) by the professional bodies representing... Read more

Survey reveals 95% of surgeons believe clinics - not the taxpayer and hospitals should pay for defective implant removal

Clinics Refusing to Help an ‘Increasingly Isolated’ Element of the Private Sector

  London – 13 January, 2011 – Despite assurances from the Government that there is no clinical need for ‘routine’ removal of controversial PIP implants, the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons... Read more

It's DD Day

Removal as Precautionary Measure

London - 6 January, 2011 – The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk), recently invited to participate in the Expert Group advising the Government on the situation concerning the controversial PIP beast implants,... Read more

Preventative removal of defective implants "not unreasonable" move

UK surgeons agree with French Regulatory Agency and clinics have moral obligation to help

London – 23 December, 2011 – Despite the UK’s Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Agency’s (MHRA) stance that there is no need for preventative explantation (removal) of defective French PIP breast implants in this country,... Read more

PIP Breast Implants: latest advice from the MHRA website

From the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency website:

The MHRA is aware of the recent report in France of the death of a woman implanted with Poly Implant Prosthese (PIP) Breast Implants associated with an anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL). This is a rare form of cancer which affects cells of the... Read more

UK surgeons reiterate caution on controversial implants

“If concerned or with adverse symptoms, see your surgeon”

London – 21 December, 2011 – In light of news that the French Government may consider explantation (removal of implants) for the 30,000 women in France who have controversial PIP devices filled with non-medical grade silicone, the... Read more

Defective implant death prompts review

UK Surgeons Reiterate Advice

London – 3 December, 2011 - A 53-year-old woman who had controversial PIP implants died last week in France from malignant lymphoma, developed in the breast’s capsular scar tissue, prompting a review of PIP explantation policy (removal... Read more

Call for halt on plastic surgery tax

Bo-Tax is fine, argue surgeons, but ‘subjective’ VAT on surgery is an ethical minefield

London – 17 October, 2011 – Over 90% of procedures deemed ‘cosmetic’ are non-surgical treatments such as injectables and lasers, and the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (www.baaps.org.uk) agrees with the... Read more