Dr Sophie Shotter creates the first ever CPD accredited complications course for NHS staff

On Saturday 25 th February 2023, Dr Sophie Shotter and her faculty of peers will run a CPD-accredited training day in London for NHS staff to help them learn how to deal with aesthetic complications and how to refer severe cases, at no cost to them.

“We are all too aware of the lack of regulation in the aesthetic sector, something which is hopefully changing," says Dr Shotter. 

"But at present, if people have had treatments from un-qualified or under-qualified practitioners and they then develop complications, they will naturally turn to the NHS for help." 

Having dealt with many complications from the hands of others on a pro bono basis, Dr Shotter was made acutely aware that when these patients present themselves in the hospital, they are not being dealt with in the most effective way, due to a lack of training around aesthetic complications and sometimes lack of empathy and understanding.

Intrinsically NHS staff want to help, says Dr Shotter, but the training they need to ensure they give the best help to these individuals is not currently available.

The BCAM Trustee, therefore took it upon herself to create and run the course and has called upon her peers to support, in the hope that this will help provide better treatment for those distressed, in pain and disfigured by aesthetic treatments within our unregulated industry.

"An understanding of who our patients are and their motivations, how to manage these problems acutely and who to refer onto will hopefully improve help available for victims of these procedures.”