The government’s health regulator has advised that patients who have undergone large head metal-on-metal hip replacements should be monitored annually for life.
The new advice comes as a joint BBC Newsnight and BMJ investigation reports that problems with such devices have been long known, but no action taken to block their use.
All-metal hips have a high failure rate and rubbing between the ball and cup can cause metal to break off, seeping into tissue and causing complications.
But despite the fact that these risks have been known and well documented for decades, patients have been kept in the dark.
Read more at BBC Health.
Tags: MRHA, Orthopaedics
