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Rajiv Grover, consultant plastic surgeon and former President of the BAAPS with responsibility for the UK national audit of cosmetic surgery, said: ‘The difference...

New figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) indicate that demand for cosmetic surgery has fallen over the last year.The organisation,...

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a consultation on the future of regulating, inspecting and rating specialist substance misuse services in England The...

Bupa has announced plans to launch a 200-strong network of dental centres for its dental insurance customers. The insurance giant said the network would...

New figures from the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) indicate that demand for cosmetic surgery has fallen over the last year.

The NHS could raise as much as £3.5bn a year by introducing a top-up fee enabling NHS patients to purchase enhanced treatment from NHS...

Only around 6.5% of the value of community service contracts due to expire this year will be subject to competitive procurement, research by Monitor...

Rajiv Grover, consultant plastic surgeon and former President of the BAAPS with responsibility for the UK national audit of cosmetic surgery, said: The difference between 2013 and 2014 may seem surprising, but the dramatic double-digit rise last year was very clearly a post-austerity boom’, and figures are simply now returning to a more rational level. It might seem counterintuitive that as plastic surgeons we could possibly welcome such a change, but we are pleased that the public are now so much more thoughtful, cautious and educated in their approach to cosmetic surgery.

The cosmetic surgery market is being driven by the over 65s, according to the first annual Plastic Surgery Insight survey published by Nuffield Health.Almost...

There has been a significant rise in patients’ satisfaction with the NHS, according to the British Social Attitudes Survey.Analysis of the survey carried out...