You are not alone: a vow to my patients

Consideration of the ‘cooling off period’ as part of the consent process

‘25. You must give the patient the time and information they need to reach a voluntary and informed decision about whether to go ahead with an intervention. .

The Nightingale Treatment: beautifully rewarding frontline NHS staff

COVID-19 update: working together and flattening the curve

For those who are in self-isolation, there are a plethora of websites and webinars offering online teaching. Check out the British Association of Cosmetic Nurses (BACN) Facebook or Instagram pages for...

Perfect your battle cry

BACN update and response to the COVID-19 pandemic

All the BACN HQ team will be working remotely from home. This will not affect any of our day-to-day services. Please continue to call the BACN should you need to and, as per normal, calls will be...

A year in review: celebrating the Ethics in Aesthetics campaign

The challenges and limitations of isolated practice in aesthetic medicine

Within aesthetic medicine, one of the challenges facing many practitioners is that numerous individuals are working in isolation within their clinical settings, with some working in dual clinical...

Practise what you preach and think before you post

This brings me to the main issue that I firmly believe needs addressing, in that there is a growing concern in the aesthetic industry about the increase of over-sexualised and provocative images that...

2020: is there a change in the air for aesthetic practice?

» At the last BACN conference, a vote by members showed overwhelming support for the motion that BACN members would not prescribe or train non-medical practitioners « .

Training in aesthetics and the future landscape

» There is momentum towards tighter regulation and registration of competencies within the industry and the JCCP register is just one example of this « .

‘The ballot is stronger than the bullet’

Shortly before President Abraham Lincoln was assasinated, he is said to have made a speech that asserted ‘the ballot is stronger than the bullet’. He had only just been re-elected and begun his second...