Four-in-five audited Cappagh hip surgeries fail to meet standard clinical threshold

Four-in-five audited Cappagh hip surgeries fail to meet standard clinical threshold

Audit of 147 procedures found that, in 79 per cent of cases in Cappagh and 60 per cent of cases in Temple Street, patients did not meet the agreed standard threshold for surgery to be warranted The post Four-in-five audited Cappagh hip surgeries fail to meet standard clinical threshold appeared first on Irish Medical Times.

Government must prioritise the care of children at centre of unnecessary hip surgery scandal

Children who may have had unnecessary hip surgery in hospitals at the centre of today’s independent report must be the government’s immediate priority, according to Social Democrats health spokesperson Pádraig Rice. Deputy Rice said: “The publication of the report today finally confirms what we have known since March – that unnecessary hip surgeries were carried out on young patients under the care of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI). “It is deep…