Lansley said the NHS medical director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, would now carry out a review of the situation.

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That is why the health secretary asked an expert group, led by the NHS medical director, Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, to review all available evidence and data on PIP breast implants.

An expert group, chaired by the NHS medical director, Sir Bruce Keogh, said on Friday that it could find no evidence that the implants were dangerous or more likely to rupture - but the clinics had not kept good enough data on the operations to be sure.

The group, headed by NHS medical director Sir Bruce Keogh, includes Fazel Fatah, the president of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, and prof Norman Williams, president of the RCSE, both of which are strongly pro-regulation.

He said he had asked Sir Bruce Keogh, the NHS medical director, to convene an expert group to look at the future regulation of the cosmetic service industry.

Anna Lynch, the NHS director of public health for county Durham will be at the meeting too.

In 2009 she was appointed an NHS non-executive director of Barnet Primary Care Trust, responsible for a budget of £550 million delivering health services to 350,000 people.