Tricky time
The reputation of the cosmetic surgery industry was brought into question during a scandal involving faulty breast implants.
A lack of record-keeping meant some surgeries were unable to tell their patients if they were affected by the recent scare over sub-standard PIP implants.
Health ministers described it as a "cowboy industry" steeped in "murky practices".
In January a new register was set up to record the details of every breast implant operation in England.
Fresh efforts are also being made to regulate adverts for surgery, to end the era of "win a boob job" competitions.
The industry was worth £750m in the UK in 2005, £2.3bn in 2010 and is forecast to reach £3.6bn by 2015.