More and more patients are suing surgeons over mistakes during operations designed to improve their appearance, according to the Medical Defence Union, which represents more than half of Britain's doctors and surgeons when accused or malpractice or negligence.
Details of the shows that breast surgery, facelifts, eyelid operations, nose and cuts to weight loss procedures account for 80% of the increase in the number of wires, with errors that lead to loss of earnings over £ 500.000. Cosmetic surgery compensation claims accepted in 45% of cases, compared with 30% of cases for medical claims in general.
The MDU said the increase was due to "a huge increase both the number of procedures and patients' expectations for a perfect result" and the surgeons failed to get proper consent from the patient and make poor workmanship. It refused to divulge more details research, citing commercial confidentiality, but said that the rise in cosmetic claims in a period of five years was "significant."
Leaders of Surgeons, "said the data underlined the need for the regulation of cosmetic procedures. "The evidence from the MDU confirm the concerns expressed by a major independent report in 2010 by the National Confidential Research on patient outcomes and death and long call from a surgeon in the field of cosmetic needs proper regulation," said Steve Cannon, a Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCSE) Board member and Chairman of the Working Group of Academy for cosmetic surgery standards.
On Friday, the government said women worried about breast implants created by the scandal hit by French company PIP should be able to have them removed for free, either from the NHS - for reconstruction after cancer breast - or the cosmetic surgery clinic.
The government created the Consultative Group of Experts on breast implants before 10 days after the confusion about whether the rate of rupture between PIP implants could be as much as 7%, much higher than 1% initially thought. Now, the government has investigated this matter, the Guardian understands that it will consider regulating the cosmetic industry as a whole.
The team, led by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh, includes Fazel Fatah, the chairman of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and Professor Norman Williams, president of the RCSE, both of which are strongly pro-regulation. Focus group will now turn to the possible introduction of an independent audit of the industry, which has caused concern for years.
In 2005, the then Chief Medical Officer, the Sir Liam Donaldson, published a report which concluded that regulation was necessary and made a series of recommendations, but little was done.
On Sunday, a Ministry of Health spokesman said: "We will welcome any submission by the MDU, a clearer picture of the data held for investigation in progress NHS medical director Sir Bruce Professor Keogh's safety and quality in cosmetic surgery. "
Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of General Practitioners, said the ongoing scandal with breast implants PIP showed that the regulation was necessary to ensure that clinics should offer compensation for patients who had been injured. Most companies that have so far refused to comply with the call of health secretary Andrew Lansley to remove the implants free of the women who worry about their safety after the explosion of some implants.
"The use of cosmetic surgery has grown in recent years," said Gerada. "It is important that surgery and could be deceptively easy to achieve, is the standard of care is always accepted, and that profit should not take precedent over quality care."
The findings of MDU based on analysis of claims against plastic surgeons over an unspecified past five years and appear in the latest edition of the magazine. Include "applicant who claimed that the surgeon had failed to take fully informed consent and a complete medical history before conducting facelift. The patient suffered a postoperative stroke. The claim was eventually settled for more than £ 500.000," she says.
During the same period the MDU, also worked with more than 50 members working in plastic surgery was under investigation by the General Medical Council.
Expert advisory group of government scandal breast implants, you will begin to discuss possible moves to regulate the cosmetics industry when it meets next month, the Guardian understands.
The study, which shows a large increase of cases through a graph, but does not give exact figures, give examples of a 43-year-old man who won £ 25.000 damages after his face was burned after blepharoplasty; One patient who received £ 10.000 after reducing his nose left him with respiratory problems; and a young woman who had given the wrong breast implant size.
Blunders in other cases leave patients scarred or features were asymmetrical, and in many cases investigations revealed that the patient undergo a thorough psychological evaluation before going under the knife, for example, women who have a second or third operation swelling of the breasts, he adds.
Pre-surgery psychological assessment should be mandatory to identify patients who have unrealistic expectations of the benefits they will receive, according to lawyers who specialize in cosmetic surgery negligence. The study also recommends that clinics are required to provide appropriate care in the future, instead of being able to ignore the complaints, the steps for patients to stop surgeons disappear after causing pain and the staff responsible for cosmetic work to have full liability insurance . Some staff members have been accidentally burned and scarred patients with laser and hot wax treatments are not properly insured.
The RCSE will soon publish updated guidelines for its members who perform these procedures in an effort to improve the clearer advice about treatment, after taking an in-depth examination of professional standards in this area, Cannon said.
Government health and social bill could lead the NHS have to treat the growing number of victims of cosmetic surgery in the future it will expand the role of private health care, said Gerada.
"The NHS has for decades took the pieces of failed private care, but now, with the expansion of the private sector and the positive encouragement that the bill of health and social care, one wonders if the safety net will be in future protection of patients, when a private company to provide, they can not or will not ihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifntervene or when the patient can not afford corrective measures, "said Gerada.
Peter Walsh, chief executive of patient safety charity Action to prevent medical accidents, said. "The government puts ideology for the liberation of the industry from red tape, bureaucracy and regulation ahead of patient safety, which is irresponsible, the damage from a private plastic surgery can lead to disability and even death.
The entire cosmetics industry, healthcare is a dark and dangerous area. Patients who suffer avoidable harm as a result of the failure of successive governments to regulate this industry. "
Article source:- http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2012/jan/08/patients-sue-plastic-surgeons-faulty
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