BBC and Save Face investigation exposes struck-off nurses operating Botox parties

Save Face collaborated with BBC’s Inside Out West Midlands to shine a light on “unscrupulous practice” in the industry.

The 30-minute show, which aired last month, was centred around two disgraced nurses, Jonathan Henk, who calls himself “Jonny Botox”, and James Kearsey. Both men, despite being struck off and deemed unfit to practise by the NMC, continued to provide non-surgical cosmetic treatments throughout the UK whilst fraudulently using their former credentials to gain the trust and confidence of their patients.

Henk, 50, describes himself as a nurse of 26 years, but was struck off by the NMC in 2012 for having sex with a mental health patient without her consent. An undercover reporter filmed him at a “botox party” at a house in Wolverhampton, where he injected three women. When confronted he refused to divulge where he was obtaining the prescription – only medicine from. Kearsey was suspended by the NMC in November 2015 after hiding a conviction for assault from his bosses at Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley.

He agreed to a consultation at his home in Stourbridge, where he told the reporter he was a nurse consultant – “the same level as a doctor” – and that he takes thousands of pounds training others. When later approached by the BBC reporter as he attended a clinic in Blackpool, he refused to comment.

Save Face director Ashton Collins, who initiated the investigation into Kearsey, and worked alongside the BBC throughout the investigation, featured on the show. She said, “Without an accessible register like Save Face, which connects consumers seeking nonsurgical cosmetic treatments with safe, verified and accredited practitioners, the landscape of the industry will never change. Consumers will remain in a vulnerable position to be continuously targeted by these unscrupulous individuals with nothing to measure their suitability to provide treatments other than to take them at face value.”

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