Updates and innovations in medical aesthetics

The British Association of Cosmetic Nurses (BACN) membership has well over 1000 members. With COVID-19 restrictions lifting over the UK, there is a lot happening within the association; we are in the middle of face-to-face regional meetings and are busy working our way around the UK, travelling to regions more than ever before. This includes a wide range of educational and business presentations from our industry partners. Dates and venues will be on our website and members will be emailed the itinerary. Board members and regional leaders will be in attendance. It has been a long 2 years.

The BACN backroom staff, Gareth Lewis, Laura Watt and Bec Coleman, who are based at our Bristol headquarters, have also been working hard developing, organising and coordinating our 2022 programme.

Bec Coleman has collated some data from our annual membership survey. Although there were only 121 respondents, we still managed to gather some interesting information about our members. The majority of respondents (116) were female, and only seven described their ethnicity as Asian, Black African or Caribbean or mixed heritage, while 78% were prescribers. In regard to experience, 101 respondents have been registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for over 10 years, and 49 answered that they had more than 10 years of experience in medical aesthetics, while 17 said that they had less than 2 years. Some 89 stated that they were lone workers, 93 had read the BACN code of professional conduct and 102 are members of the BACN Facebook group. Some 62 out of 121 stated that they practised full-time in medical aesthetics 4 days or more per week. Finally, 93 of those who participated said that, as a professional organisation, the BACN had met their expectations.