The NHS has launched a review after more than 10,000 knee replacement patients were fitted with a potentially faulty implant. The part failed up to six-times more often than would usually be expected, ...

Thousands of NHS knee replacement operations are cancelled at short notice every year, many for avoidable reasons, according to a new study published today [1 December]. This costs the NHS millions of ...

THE NHS is scrambling to secure enough bone cement to prevent devastating delays to patients’ surgeries. Hundreds of thousands of Brits have feared having their hip and knee operations cancelled due ...

New research has found that weight/body mass index (BMI) policies introduced by NHS commissioning groups in England are associated with a decrease in knee replacement surgery and may be contributing ...

NEARLY one in five NHS organisations are denying patients knee and hip replacement surgery because of their weight, a new report shows. The practice is leaving people needing the operations at risk of ...