Plastic surgery provider SK:N, which operates more than 70 clinics in the UK, has ceased trading due to a lack of investment. The company also owns brands including Harley Medical Group and ABC Medical. SK:N’s Twitter and Instagram accounts have also been shut down. Customers were informed of the collapse when they called SK:N’s main office number and were played an automated message. SK:N has more than 450 consultants, doctors, nurses and medical practitioners operating across England and Scotland and provided services from tattoo and wart removal to lip filler and thread lifts.
SK:N’s website was replaced after 5 pm on Tuesday with a message that read: “We recognise this outcome will have a significant impact on our team members and our customers and we are deeply sorry for the stress and inconvenience this has caused.” The message added that the company “will be contacting all clients still awaiting test results as soon as possible.” A customer who has pre-paid about £700 for a series of appointments said their upcoming appointment had been cancelled “out of the blue” on Tuesday, adding that the company “has done this with no prior warning to customers, with no communications about how to get a refund on the treatments customers are owed.”
Kendrick, the company’s PR agency, has indicated that it has “no information regarding how things are being managed by SK:N (or HMRC/debt collection), or how cancelled patient appointments/payments etc will be redressed.” SK:N was founded in 1990 and expanded to locations in Manchester, Liverpool, Glasgow. Despite the collapse of the business, SK:N said that “all further updates will be provided on this website and when available.”
The collapse comes after Superdrug was forced to cancel its skin rejuvenation treatments because of an investigation by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. The agency warned that products containing botulinum toxin and dermal fillers required medical prescriptions to ensure proper use. It plans to introduce a requirement for a compulsory register of all practitioners providing cosmetic procedures, which would be open to the public
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