Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many patients have been provided counselling services by the NHS for trauma caused by complications as a result of negligent cosmetic surgery performed by a private practitioner.

Neither the Department nor its arm’s length bodies hold the information requested.

On 8 May 2018 my Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care wrote to the chief executives of leading independent healthcare providers, asking that they improve patient safety in the wider sector, learning lessons from the National Health Service on making services safer and improving quality of care for patients.