NHS hospitals to be banned from fitting metal-on-metal hip replacements after
high failure rate
NHS hospitals are to be banned from fitting most metal-on-metal hip replacements
after a study found unacceptably high failure rates among implants in 17, 000
patients
Mr. Treacy’s Comments:
Metal-on-metal hip replacement has not been “banned”; it is the subject of
ongoing deliberation by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence,
and others. More than a million metal-on-metal devices have … Read the rest