Breast and cosmetic implant registry (NHS and private providers) Data Provision Notice

NHS England has developed a Breast and Cosmetic Implant Registry (BCIR). This is expected to capture the details of all breast implant procedures completed in England by both the NHS and private providers. The Department of Health directed  NHS England (previously known as NHS Digital) to carry out this work in response to Recommendation 21 of the Keogh Review of the Regulation of Cosmetic Interventions.

The primary purpose of the BCIR is to record the details of any patient, who has had breast implant surgery, so that they can be traced in the event of a product recall or other safety concern relating to a specific type of implant. Should an implant recall arise, an agreed process will be followed.

The secondary purpose of the BCIR is to provide an 'early warning system'. A later phase of the registry is to introduce a facility to enter anonymised data, especially if consent rates prove to be low. This would then help provide a denominator for the total number of implant procedures, so if there was to be a recall in the future, the registry would indicate the full scale of the recall. More data on the registry would better inform an outlier process through the identification of any trends and complications related to specific implants.

NHS  England may publish reports on the total numbers and types of implants, procedures and outcomes. These reports will only contain aggregated information (that is, data that has been grouped or combined) so that no individual patient will be identifiable.

• NHS service providers that provide specialist breast implant surgery including NHS funded and non-NHS funded patients.
• Independent sector service providers are requested to provide information to the registry of patients whose care is non-NHS funded

section 259 of the Health and Social Care Act.

Ongoing.

October 2023

Update to Data Provision Notice (DPN) to reflect change of data collection platform and data processor that will occur with migration to the Outcome Registries Platform. NHS and Independent sectors now covered by 1 DPN following information governance advice.