Dr Sophie Shotter outlines collaboration efforts with the NHS to establish partnerships aimed at enhancing public health services.
In the UK, most healthcare is state funded by the National Health Service (NHS). This means that patients largely receive medical appointments and treatment free of charge, with cost being covered by general taxation.1 Most aesthetic procedures are not typically covered by the NHS.2 Yet, when complications arise following procedures, many patients turn to the NHS for support.3
Several factors may contribute to this, including patients not realising that their aesthetic practitioner can and should be able to help, they cannot get hold of their treating practitioner, they have been turned away as the practitioner does not know how to manage the complication, or the patient has simply lost trust in the practitioner’s abilities.
This article examines how collaboration with the NHS and public health services globally can enhance patient care in medical aesthetics.
