Providers must ‘commit’ to self regulation

The cosmetic surgery industry must embrace self-regulation in order to protect patients undergoing non-surgical cosmetic procedures such as Botox, BUPA group medical director Dr Andrew Vallance-Owen has warned.Speaking at Laing & Buisson’s cosmetic surgery conference last month, Dr Vallance-Owen, who chairs the Independent Healthcare Advisory Services’ (IHAS) working group on cosmetic surgery said: ‘Speaking plainly,…