BAAPS slams self-regulation scheme

The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) has called for a government-backed quality assurance programme to be shelved, claiming that it amounts to state-sponsored marketing for cosmetic procedures.BAAPS president Nigel Mercer decried the Quality Assurance Mark for injectable cosmetic procedures, run by Independent Healthcare Advisory Services (IHAS), as ‘unenforcable’ and self serving, saying it…