'Have-a-go' surgeons
Last September, a report by an official review body, the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death found many centres in the UK offering cosmetic surgery were failing to assess and care for patients properly.
The risks from cosmetic surgery, as with any surgery are great
Fazel Fatah, President, British Assocation of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
Patients were at risk from a culture which saw teams "have a go" at operations they rarely performed.
The report by the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death looked at 361 sites in the UK. It found that some teams were too inexperienced to be offering some cosmetic procedures.
With the exception of breast enlargement operations, the majority of sites were not carrying out enough procedures to keep their skills up.
To be safe, sites should be carrying out more than 20 operations a year - in order to give them enough experience.
But only a fifth had managed this for breast reductions and a quarter for facelift.
Other problems identified by the report included psychological evaluations often not being carried out, and more than half of the operating theatres not being properly equipped.
Monitoring before and after treatment was also not sufficient in many cases.