BBC News - Breast implants register aimed at cleaning up industry

Every breast implant operation in England is to be recorded on a new register, ministers say.
Because of a lack of records, some surgeons were unable to tell their patients if they were affected by the scare over sub-standard PIP implants.
Ministers said they were cleaning up a "cowboy industry" steeped in "murky practices".
Health ministers in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland will decide if they are to join the register.
Fresh efforts will also be made to regulate adverts to end the era of "win a boob-job" competitions.
The cosmetic procedures industry has been quietly booming. It was worth £750m in the UK in 2005, £2.3bn in 2010 and is forecast to reach £3.6bn by 2015.
However, the PIP implant scandal led doctors to describe the field as a poorly regulated "crisis waiting to happen".
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