We carried out a review of the data available to us about Be Cosmetic Clinics on 6 July 2023. We have not found evidence that we need to carry out an inspection or reassess our rating at this stage.
This could change at any time if we receive new information. We will continue to monitor data about this service.
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We rated this location as good because:
BE Cosmetic Clinics Limited is operated by Surgimed Clinic Limited. Facilities include one theatre, one admission/recovery room, one hair transplant room and a consulting office. The service has no overnight beds.
We previously inspected this service in March 2017 at which time we had serious concerns that the provider was not complying with all the fundamental standards of care. We wrote a formal ‘Letter of Concern’ to the provider on 22 March 2017 setting out the concerns. Following the letter the provider voluntarily suspended all their regulated activities except for hair transplants, which are a ‘clean procedure’ and do not require the use of a sterile operating theatre.
We inspected this service using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out an announced follow-up inspection on 22 August 2017 and 14 September 2017. The purpose of this inspection was to check what improvements had been made to the service since our previous inspection.
To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led? Where we have a legal duty to do so we rate services’ performance against each key question as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.
Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
The current service provided by this service was hair transplant since the provider suspended all other services following our inspection in March 2017.
94 hair transplant procedures were carried out between April and August 2017.
BE Cosmetic Clinics Limited is operated by Surgimed Clinic Limited. Facilities include three treatment rooms and a consulting office. The service has no overnight beds.
The service provides elective cosmetic surgery. We inspected surgery at this service.
We inspected this service using our comprehensive inspection methodology. We carried out an announced inspection on 14 and 15 March 2017.
To get to the heart of patients’ experiences of care and treatment, we ask the same five questions of all services: are they safe, effective, caring, responsive to people's needs, and well-led? Where we have a legal duty to do so we rate services’ performance against each key question as outstanding, good, requires improvement or inadequate.
Throughout the inspection, we took account of what people told us and how the provider understood and complied with the Mental Capacity Act 2005.
The main service provided by this hospital was hair transplants. This involved removing single hairs from a location on the body and transplanted onto the head or face (in the case of a beard).
During our inspection we found that the provider was undertaking hair transplants, abdominoplasty, mini abdominoplasty, breast lifts and gynaecomastia.
The service carried out 444 procedures from October 2015 to September 2016. This was broken down into 330 hair restoration surgery, 109 liposuction, four scar revision and one mini abdominoplasty .
We had concerns with the regulated activities carried out at this service. We informed the provider about our concerns and they voluntarily suspended all their regulated activites except for hair transplants and injectable procedures.