UK concerns over unregulated plastic surgery grant

The list of services offered ranges from the imaginative to the painful, from the dazzling to the bizarre.

There are organ replacement procedures to obesity surgery, Brazilian buttock augmentations to hair transplants and full-body MOTs. This isn't the body-modification menu from a science fiction novel, but packages for sale at the Health Tourism Expo, a two-day sales conference for surgical alterations held in London last month.

The event was attended by many doctors and hospital representatives manning advertising stands. Many came from Turkey, where clinics attract thousands of British tourists looking for surgery at a lower price, with flights and ...