Surgicare

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Surgicare

Type	Healthcare
Founded	1992
Headquarters	Manchester, UK
Industry	Healthcare
Products	Cosmetic Surgery
Employees	100 (2006)
Website	www.surgicare.co.uk

SurgiCare is one of the leading UK cosmetic surgery, cosmetic treatments and weight loss surgery providers, within the private medical sector offering a wide range of surgical and non surgical cosmetic procedures.

1 Overview and history
2 Services and Locations
3 In the Media
4 Key People
5 References
6 External links

[edit] Overview and history

Established for over fifteen years, SurgiCare specialises in all areas of cosmetic surgery and treatment including weight loss. It has clinics and hospitals across the country and offers surgeon led consultations with elective surgery.

Surgicare are the only cosmetic surgery organisation in the UK that is surgeon led, owned, staffed and managed by doctors and fully qualified medical staff. We guard our reputation as experts in cosmetic surgery by getting closer to our patients and insisting on the highest standards of clinical excellence before, during and after procedures.

With over 15 years' experience in independent surgical procedures, our reputation precedes us. We employ some of the most respected cosmetic Surgeons in the UK and unlike our competitors, at Surgicare consultations for cosmetic surgery are carried out with a specialist surgeon who will then go on to perform your chosen procedure. All of our surgeons are registered on the GMC Specialist Register and provide a level of care and expertise second to none.

Surgicare have cosmetic surgery clinics in Manchester Leeds, London, Birmingham and we also operate consultation clinics for cosmetic surgery, weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatments on a regular basis thorughout the UK.

[edit] Services and Locations

SurgiCare performs:

Cosmetic surgery, such as abdominoplasty and breast augmentation
Cosmetic treatments, such as botox
Weight loss treatments, such as the adjustable gastric band and gastric bypass surgery
Varicose vein and hernia treatments

SurgiCare have cosmetic surgery clinics in Manchester [1], Leeds, London, Birmingham and also operate consultation clinics for cosmetic surgery, weight loss surgery and cosmetic treatments in Bristol, Glasgow, Newcastle and Plymouth on a regular basis.

[edit] In the Media

Purely Cosmetic was a fly on the wall filmed in 2006 for the Discovery Channel Home & Health in the UK www.homeandhealthtv.co.uk. The program followed 14 men and women through various cosmetic surgery and treatments. The first episode was screened on 6 February 2006.^[1] Rowetta from The X Factor (TV series) was featured on the show.

[edit] Key People

Professor Charles McCollum founded the company in 1991 and remains as the Medical Director. He is Professor of Surgery at the University of Manchester. ^[2] Following basic surgical training in Leeds, he was Lecturer in Surgery to Sir Geoffrey Slaney in Birmingham until 1983.

He then moved to London as Senior Lecturer/Reader and Consultant Surgeon at Charing Cross Hospital. In 1989, he was appointed to the Chair in Surgery in Manchester based at South Manchester University Hospitals (SMUH). He set up the minimally invasive laboratory and major services for vascular disease and varicose veins. Professor McCollum is regularly invited to give Plenary lectures at both national and international meetings on vascular surgery, arterial and venous disease. He is the senior author on many research publications, chapters in textbooks and various articles and reviews.^[3]

His clinical interests as a consultant vascular surgeon are across the range of vascular surgery including varicose veins and venous insufficiency. Although his research interests are across cardiovascular disease, Professor McCollum's venous research team have achieved an international reputation for research on venous insufficiency and ulceration. He has advised the Department of Health (United Kingdom) on NHS criteria for selecting patients for varicose vein surgery.